From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-10-05T01:17:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Better ruby way for caseing on class?

On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:10 AM, ebeard wrote:

> I currently do this:
>
> [Kernel,String,Object].each do |klass|
> case klass.to_s
>   when 'Kernel' :
>     puts 'I\'m doing stuff with object Kernel'
>   when 'String' :
>     puts 'I\'m doing stuff with object String'
>   when 'Object' :
>     puts 'I\'m doing stuff with object Object'
>   end
> end
>
>
> Is there a better way?

Sure.  Drop the call to to_s() and the ' .. 's around the class  
names.  Case calls ===() for the condition object and Class defines  
===() to do what you expect here.

James Edward Gray II