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Since your providers.yml file is listing all of your providers as values in an array, it means that if you hit a pattern match that's at the end of the array, it will take linear runtime to hit the match.

While this performance issue might not matter tons for a list of your size, if you plan on expanding your provider list over time, you'll want to convert it to a hash.

Performance comparison example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5551168/performance-of-arrays-and-hashes-in-ruby

Hash in yaml: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3034072/hash-inside-yaml-file

My Gem that is very similar for checking all free emails (no yaml, but makes for easy calls):
https://github.com/nickbender/humdrum