From: Drew Raines <aaraines@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T03:50:11+09:00
Subject: Testing Float equality (was: Negative Float conversion to Fixnum)

Wolfgang N叩dasi-Donner wrote:

> Drew Raines schrieb:
>> Can I workaround this?
>
> If you always expect a result for which "x * 100" is a number without
> a fractional part, you can use "(-39.30 * 100).round" instead.

Hal Fulton[1] gave me a good idea:

  class Float
    FUDGE = 1e-3
    def ==(x)
      (self-x).abs < FUDGE
    end
  end

This is better for my tests anyway.  assert_equal now works on its
own.

-Drew

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://lnk.nu/amazon.com/dng