From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2012-03-19T17:37:47+09:00
Subject: Re: === with class type equality check fails

Földes László wrote in post #1052241:
> based on documentation, '===' should be smarter than '=='.
> Did I miss something here?

Yes - read the documentation again.

In the case of a Class object, the === operator means "is an instance 
of". So you should write:

case variable    # not variable.class
when Fixnum
   ...
when String
   ...
end

HTH,

Brian.

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