How to ignore uppercase using start_with?

Question

Is there a better way to ignore uppercase than this?

"Hello".start_with?("hell","Hell") #=> true

I want to check if a string element in an array starts with another string ignoring uppercase, like LIKE % in MySQL.

Answer 1

I would do something like this:

'Hello'.upcase.start_with?('HELL')

Another approach to the same problem. That's equivalent to do something like UPPER(column) like 'SOMETHING%' in SQL.