In the following pattern we have to use \ a number of times to escape the
/ character that would typically signify the end of the pattern.
/https:\/\/.*?\/api\/(.*?)\/(.*?)/
Is there any way we can clean this up to remove the noise of the \
escape characters?
Ruby has an alternative regex constructor, %r{...} that allows us to write
our pattern without needing to escape / characters. Using this constructor,
our pattern can be cleaned up as follows:
%r{https://.*?/api/(.*?)/(.*?)}