From: Vahagn Hayrapetyan <vahagnh@...>
Date: 2009-09-05T20:10:39+09:00
Subject: Re: how to compare two object instances? is "m1.to_yaml.eql?(m2.to_yaml)"  a good way?

Have you tried using obj_1.hash == obj_2.hash ?

Also, what do you mean by "saving" the object? Persisting it as a byte 
stream, a string, or in a database using ORM?

/ Vahagn

Greg Hauptmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What's an easy way to compare for equality two object instances (that
> haven't been saved yet).  Or in other words pretty much just two
> object instances.  I've tried "==" and "eql?" on the objects directly
> and this doesn't work.
> 
> How about:  "m1.to_yaml.eql?(m2.to_yaml)"      Is this the simplest way?
> 
> (i.e. leveraging the ability to serialize the object to a yaml string)
> 
> tks

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.