The TDD/BDD stuff is really quite amazing. In order to construct tests
on a library that I wrote to implement custom magic columns I have
learned some extremely valuable information respecting date and time
recording in Rails. Which leads to my question:
I am presently testing an AR stored time object thus:
@my_mage_local[dt_col].to_f.should be_close(
@my_mage_local[dt_col].to_f +
@my_mage_local.my_time_local.utc_offset, 0.01)
However, it occurs to me that instead I might wish to compare datetime
values as they are returned from the database without considering their
numeric value, which is dependent upon AR itself. When I check the
class of a datetime object before casting I see this:
@my_mage_local["#{dt_col}_before_type_cast"].class => String
Should I be comparing string values instead? For example:
@my_mage_local["#{dt_col}_before_type_cast"].should \
be(@my_mage_local[my_time_local_before_type_cast])