Ignoring a character along with word boundary in regex

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Published on 2010-05-25T04:26:18Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 4:31 UTC
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I am using gsub in Ruby to make a word within text bold. I am using a word boundary so as to not make letters within other words bold, but am finding that this ignores words that have a quote after them. For example:

text.gsub(/#{word}\b/i, "<b>#{word}</b>")

text = "I said, 'look out below'"
word = below

In this case the word below is not made bold. Is there any way to ignore certain characters along with a word boundary?

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