[ruby-core:23415] [Bug #1454] compatability of rational and bigdecimal (1.8 and 1.9)

Bug #1454: compatability of rational and bigdecimal (1.8 and 1.9)
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1454

Author: Karl Brodowsky
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Category: core, Target version: Ruby 1.8.8
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i586-linux]

I did the following to produce this error:

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ruby 1.8
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require "rational"
require "bigdecimal"
a=BigDecimal("3.2")
b=Rational(3,4)
b/a
---> TypeError: Rational can't be coerced into BigDecimal
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:206:in `coerce'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:206:in `/'
        from (irb):14

b+a, b-a and b*a yield a similar error
a+b, a-b, a*b and a/b work fine.

$ irb --version
--> irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)
$ ruby --version
--> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i586-linux]

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jruby 1.2
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jruby does seem to have this issue:
$ jruby --version
--> jruby 1.2.0 (ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 287) (2009-03-16 rev 9419) [i386-java]
$ jirb --version
--> irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)
[code above in jirb]
--> TypeError: Rational can't be coerced into BigDecimal
        from /usr/local/lib/jruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:206:in `/'
        from (irb):6

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ruby 1.9
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$ ruby --version
--> ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux]
$ irb --version
--> irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)
[above code in irb]
--> TypeError: BigDecimal can't be coerced into Rational
        from (irb):5:in `/'
        from (irb):5
        from /usr/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'


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