Is there someone I can ask about how this works? It's one of the few katas I've skipped over and want to gain an understanding for it. I can read how the hashes translate over, but I'm unfamiliar with the rest of the code.

Im getting better, I did the same!

I like your solution because it'll be easier to maintain in the future.

Any reason you wouldn't want to throw the needed methods into a constant array (like in my solution)? That way, it doesn't create that array every time you call the method ...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6337897/what-is-the-colon-operator-in-ruby

This describes why should one use the colon operator

aha, this is exactly is my code.

The internets melt down :D

what if the search_text is a space char?

It's not wrong, re-read the code more carefully ;-)

this solution is wrong if full_text == search_text or full_text end with search_text

1.9.3-p392 :042 > "vv".split("vv").size
=> 0
1.9.3-p392 :043 > "vvaa".split("vv").size
=> 2
1.9.3-p392 :044 > "aavv".split("vv").size
=> 1

Dang, forgot about .last, that [0..2] bothered me