From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-08-27T12:20:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby == how does it works?

On 8/26/06, Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@blurgle.ca> wrote:
> On 06-08-26, at 03:33, Surendra Singhi wrote:
> >   Does the Ruby '==' operator compares the 'object_ids' of the
> > element before
>
> Depends on how the object receiving it implements it.
>

More exactly == is a method ->

class Foo
  def==(other)
    self.class == other.class
  end
end

f = Foo.new
g = Foo.new

f == 7  => false
f == f   => true
f == g  => true

pth