From: Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>
Date: 2010-09-01T22:21:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.6 : 0.5 == 5.0 ???

This seems to work for me for my version and os etc.

ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10.0.0]
$ ruby -e "puts 0.5 == 5.0"
false
$