Kevin Newton | A Ruby Regular Expression Engine

09-Jan-2026 522
Recently I put some finishing touches on the exreg gem, a pure-Ruby implementation of a Unicode regular expression engine. It supports nearly all of the same functionality as Onigmo, the Ruby regular expression engine, with caveats listed in the README. Importantly however, it uses a Thompson-style NFA virtual machine, meaning it is immune to ReDoS caused by catastrophic backtracking. .
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