# Equality

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/equality/151667>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 24, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/equality/151667 "2008-10-24T08:07:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![grayson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@grayson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/grayson)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/equality/151667/1 "2008-10-24T08:07:18Z")

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is there a better way to test for equality than this

user1.interests.collect(&id).sort == user2.interests.collect(&id).sort

TIA

GP