Eql not matching identical hashes unless they actually are the same object

Testing RSpec
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rspec 1.1.11 and it’s rails sidekick.

After writing a few specs for an object I created that inherits form
an Hash I noticed that eql wasn’t matching hashes that where actually
matching (I’m pretty sure it worked fine before):

{:foo => 0, :bar => 1}.should eql({:foo => 0, :bar => 1})

=> expected {:foo=>0, :bar=>1}, got {:foo=>0, :bar=>1}

(using .eql?)

h={:foo => 0, :bar => 1}
h.should eql(h)

=> pass

by the way == still works:
({:foo => 0, :bar => 1} == {:foo => 0, :bar => 1}).should

=> Still passes

It works ok with everything else…
I obviously did something wrong. Any clue? Where should I look?

Cheers

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“eql?” matches object references, you should use “==” to match equality.

Maurício Linhares
http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Maurício Linhares
[email protected] wrote:

“eql?” matches object references, you should use “==” to match equality.

eql? acts differently in different situations. equal? is the one you
should use for object references if you want any consistency.

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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Leandro P. [email protected]
wrote:

h={:foo => 0, :bar => 1}
h.should eql(h)

=> pass

by the way == still works:
({:foo => 0, :bar => 1} == {:foo => 0, :bar => 1}).should

=> Still passes

It works ok with everything else…
I obviously did something wrong. Any clue? Where should I look?

http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec/1.1.12/classes/Spec/Matchers.html#M000468

Also - read up on Ruby’s semantics of eql?, equal? and ==

:slight_smile: