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False positive for IncompleteHostnameRegExp in Ruby

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**Description of the false positive**

There's a problem with the current implementation of `IncompleteHostnameRegExp` for Ruby. Specifically, it seems that the rule with report false positives for any `X.match(Y)` method call where `Y` is a `String` and `X` is any object with a `match` method.

The rule incorrectly "thinks" that `Y` is a regex being used for matching, likely because in Ruby's `String` class has a `match` method which takes a `String` parameter for defining the regex:

https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.2/String.html#method-i-match

In other words, the rule doesn't check that `X` is a known type for which the `match` method accepts a string argument which is used as a regex, and instead matches on any type for `X`.

**Code samples or links to source code**

Please see https://github.com/github/codeql/pull/13748 which includes a failing test which demonstrates the problem.

**URL to the alert on GitHub code scanning (optional)**

Can't share it since it's in a private repository 😬

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