instance method `compare_with_coercion`

Ruby on Rails 7.2.3

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

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other req

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb, line 317
  def compare_with_coercion(other)
    # we're avoiding Time#to_datetime and Time#to_time because they're expensive
    if other.class == Time
      compare_without_coercion(other)
    elsif other.is_a?(Time)
      # also avoid ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone#to_time before Rails 8.0
      if other.respond_to?(:comparable_time)
        compare_without_coercion(other.comparable_time)
      else
        compare_without_coercion(other.to_time)
      end
    else
      to_datetime <=> other
    end
  end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb line 317 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in Time

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