Using regex in Ruby if condition

Question

I'm trying to use regex as the conditional in a Ruby (1.9.2) if statement but it keeps returning true even when the regex evaluates to nil

if (params[:test] =~ /foo/)
  return "match"
else
  return "no match"
end

The above returns "match" even when Rails.logger.info(params[:test]) shows test as set to "bar"

Solution

if params[:test] =~ /foo/
    # Successful match
else
    # Match attempt failed
end

Works for me. Debug what is in params[:test]