Re: dbi.rb Timestamp#== method

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:17:57AM -0700, Brad Hilton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After installing the latest ruby-dbi I started having a problem when
> comparing ruby Time objects with ruby-dbi Timestamp objects.
> Timestamp#== checks to see if year, month, day, hour, minute,
> second and fraction() equal that of the other object.  But this causes
> an exception if the object doesn't respond to one of those methods.  It
> so happens that ruby Time objects don't define #minute.
> 
> How about adding a simple check like:
> 
>    [:year, :month, :day, :hour, :minute, :second, :fraction].each do |meth|
>      return false unless a.respond_to?(meth)
>    end

Hm, how about extending the Time class for #minute? Or comparing with #min 
instead?

  class Time
    alias minute min
    def fraction() nil end
  end 

Would that help?

Regards,

  Michael