Pass the string instead of reconstructing it from a regexp

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb
index e7eb26377..52a13516b 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ module Homebrew extend self
       if count == 0 and not blacklisted? query
         puts "No formula found for #{query.inspect}."
         begin
-          GitHub.find_pull_requests(rx) { |pull| puts pull }
+          GitHub.find_pull_requests(query) { |pull| puts pull }
         rescue GitHub::Error => e
           opoo e.message
         end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index 8852d93b8..13861a6de 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -308,12 +308,10 @@ module GitHub extend self
     issues_matching(name).select { |issue| issue["state"] == "open" }
   end
 
-  def find_pull_requests rx
+  def find_pull_requests query
     return if ENV['HOMEBREW_NO_GITHUB_API']
     puts "Searching pull requests..."
 
-    query = rx.source.delete('.*').gsub('\\', '')
-
     open_or_closed_prs = issues_matching(query).select do |issue|
       issue["pull_request"]["html_url"]
     end