Extract a substring from a string in Ruby using a regular expression

by 
"<name> <substring>"[/.*<([^>]*)/,1]
=> "substring"

No need to use scan, if we need only one result.
No need to use Python’s match, when we have Ruby’s String[regexp,#].

See: http://ruby-doc.org/core/String.html#method-i-5B-5D

Note: str[regexp, capture] → new_str or nil

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