Rails 4, Ruby 2 Model has Card and Idiom and Idiom belongs_to :card
In my Rails console I have an Idiom i and get the card from it: c=i.card => #<Card id: 19, ....> Now I do: c.is_a?(Card) => false c.instance_of?(Card) => false Ooops! Why false in both cases? c.class.name => "Card" c.class.name==Card.name => true The class name is the same, but the class isn't? Please explain.... And now an explanation why I want to do it: I have a function which is "overloaded", in that it's single argument can be either of a certain clas (in my case, Card (or a subclass of it)), or a Fixnum, and I need to distinguish between these cases. I know that it is not the best style of querying the type of a variable at runtime, but the only alternatives I could think of, would be to either provide two differently named functions, or have an hash argument with two types of keywords, and I don't like both of these solutions. Aside from this, I'm really curious to know why is_a? doesn't work here. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/57d76f799458f02d7a4c9494c08bc909%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.