On Dec 21, 10:07 pm, Peter Vandenabeele <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Frederick Cheung wrote in post #969871:
> > I am actually curious how I could see from the object > itself in a Rails context that it's not "really" a Fixnum, > but an ActiveSupport::Duration object ActiveSupport::Duration === foo would return true (or Fixnum === foo would return false) > Also, here I did use specific units (in-casu "days"), > but still I had naively expected a different result > on line 005. > > 004:0> weekend.seconds > => 172800 seconds # this is correct > 005:0> weekend.days > => 172800 days # I had expected '2' or '2 days' a Duration object doesn't have days (or seconds etc.) methods that return the invidual components (the parts method does that), so when you call days on it, it ends up calling days on its value in seconds. > > Thanks, > > Peter > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
