From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T07:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: 1978 != 1978

Hi --

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Shandy Nantz wrote:

> I have these years that I am trying to compare to see if they are equal
> and when my code get to the right year in question where it is supposed
> to equate to true, it doesn't. Here is my code:
>
> <% 1900.upto(year) do |i| %>
>  <%= option_tag(i, i, @user.dobyear.to_s == i.to_s ? true : false) %>
> <% end %>

An aside: == returns true or false, so you don't have to do the whole
? true : false thing.

> When I do some 'puts' I get a condition where '1978' == '1978' and that
> results in a false value and I can't figure out why. Why in Ruby does
> this happen? Thansk,

Are there spaces around @user.dobyear? I'm not sure what you mean
about puts, except that puts returns nil, but I'm not sure how that
fits in with your question.


David

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