Kind of object

Rails
1

Hello All,

I want to know that is there anything in ruby by which i can know that
which kind of object is this…? Something like is_object? :slight_smile:

I mean… lets suppose i have two objects of Model ABC and Model DEF…
then i want to execute some conditions based upon the type of objects.

Thanks in advance.

2

I think instance_of can serve my purpose.

Hemant B. wrote:

Hello All,

I want to know that is there anything in ruby by which i can know that
which kind of object is this…? Something like is_object? :slight_smile:

I mean… lets suppose i have two objects of Model ABC and Model DEF…
then i want to execute some conditions based upon the type of objects.

Thanks in advance.

3

use object.class

4

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 03:56, bala kishore pulicherla
[email protected] wrote:

use object.class

Just beware, if you do a direct comparison, you won’t catch subclasses.

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$ irb

class MyHash < Hash ; end
=> nil
h = MyHash.new
=> {}
h.is_a? Hash
=> true

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Andy

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