From: Kornelius Kalnbach <murphy@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T20:13:36+09:00
Subject: Re: type information

> You can do comparisons like:
> if variable_name.class == "String" then do this etc.
Sorry to be the smartass ^^ but because Ruby is such a great language,
#class gives you the class object itself, not only its name. So that
would be:

   obj.class == String

Mostly you want to have this instead:

   obj.is_a? String

or even

   obj.instance_of? String

The mighty ri has further info.
[murphy]