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Ruby class and case statements

In Ruby on 27 October 2010 tagged case

I was writing some code akin to: case something.class when String, Symbol then 1 when Fixnum then 2 when Time then 3 end Only to find it didn’t work, always returning nil. A bit of trawling turned up the following blog post: http://www.postal-code.com/mrhappy/blog/2007/02/01/ruby-comparing-an-objects-class-in-a-case-statement/, which explains that you don’t need the .class. So my above code [...]