instance method `compare_with_coercion`

Ruby on Rails 3.0.20

Since v3.0.20

Available in: v3.0.20 v3.1.12 v3.2.22.5 v4.0.13 v4.1.16 v4.2.9 v5.2.8.1 v6.0.6 v6.1.7.10 v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

Compare with:

compare_with_coercion(other)

Layers additional behavior on Time#<=> so that DateTime and ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instances can be chronologically compared with a Time

Parameters

other req

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb, line 275
  def compare_with_coercion(other)
    # if other is an ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone, coerce a Time instance from it so we can do <=> comparison
    other = other.comparable_time if other.respond_to?(:comparable_time)
    if other.acts_like?(:date)
      # other is a Date/DateTime, so coerce self #to_datetime and hand off to DateTime#<=>
      to_datetime.compare_without_coercion(other)
    else
      compare_without_coercion(other)
    end
  end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb line 275 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in Time

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