From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T04:50:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Fixnum/String randomly changing type

On 9/26/06, Sam Web <swebster@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am seeing some odd behavior that look to me to like it could be a bug
> in Ruby.  Being new to the language, however, I wanted to see if there
> was another explanation.  I am using Ruby 1.8.4 on an Intel Mac.  The
> code at the bottom of this message is an excerpt from a class in a
> larger script.  It is using DBI to pull 10 fields from a MySQL database.
> The first 9 are integers (tinyint(4) in the database) and the last is a
> string (varchar(255) in the database).  When I run the below program as
> is, the puts outputs:

My guess, based on what you're seeing, is that something special is
being done on the #each by either DBI or the DBD driver for MySQL. It
sees that it's really a Fixnum value that it's supposed to be
returning, and converts it for you.

-austin
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