rspec users - Jul 2010 - Testing equality

Hello
How can I test equality with two objects when they include some
attribute that is BigDecimal?

if I make something like this:

it "should ...whatever" do
  obj = Factory.create(:my_object)
  ...
  MyObject.first.should == obj
end.

FAILS

This fails because the object expected is different from the object
gotten, and the only difference are the BigDecimal attributes, that are
different objects, even though they have the same value.

Thanks.
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On Jul 8, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Juanma Cervera wrote:
> Hello
> How can I test equality with two objects when they include some
> attribute that is BigDecimal?
> 
> if I make something like this:
> 
> it "should ...whatever" do
>  obj = Factory.create(:my_object)
>  ...
>  MyObject.first.should == obj
> end.
> 
> FAILS
> 
> This fails because the object expected is different from the object
> gotten, and the only difference are the BigDecimal attributes, that are
> different objects, even though they have the same value.
rspec delegates ==() to the objects being compared. It''s up to library
providers and users to override ==() in a way that is sane in a given context.
Assuming a single BigDecimal attr named amount, something like this:

def ==(other)
  self.attributes.merge(:amount => BigDecimal.new(self.amount.to_s)) = 
other.attributes.merge(:amount => BigDecimal.new(other.amount.to_s))
end

HTH,
David

David Chelimsky wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Juanma Cervera wrote:
> 
>> end.
>> 
>> FAILS
>> 
>> This fails because the object expected is different from the object
>> gotten, and the only difference are the BigDecimal attributes, that are
>> different objects, even though they have the same value.
> 
> rspec delegates ==() to the objects being compared. It''s up to
library
> providers and users to override ==() in a way that is sane in a given 
> context. Assuming a single BigDecimal attr named amount, something like 
> this:
> 
> def ==(other)
>   self.attributes.merge(:amount => BigDecimal.new(self.amount.to_s))
=>   other.attributes.merge(:amount => BigDecimal.new(other.amount.to_s))
> end
> 
> HTH,
> David
Thanks for your answer David, but I think there is a problem.
The assertion that fails has nothing to do with the BidDecimal types, 
but with the created_at and updated_at timestamps
I have try this:

v = Factory.create(:my_object)
f = MyObject.first

v.should == f ==> This fails
v.amount.should == f.amount  ==> This works


But...

v.updated_at.should == f.updated_at


RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError: expected: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 
06:57:48 UTC +00:00,
     got: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:57:48 UTC +00:00 (using ==)
Diff:
  from 
/home/jmcervera/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299 at
rails3/gems/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.15/lib/rspec/expectations/fail_with.rb:29:in
`fail_with''
  from 
/home/jmcervera/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299 at
rails3/gems/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.15/lib/rspec/matchers/operator_matcher.rb:39:in
`fail_with_message''
  from 
/home/jmcervera/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299 at
rails3/gems/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.15/lib/rspec/matchers/operator_matcher.rb:61:in
`__delegate_operator''
  from 
/home/jmcervera/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299 at
rails3/gems/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.15/lib/rspec/matchers/operator_matcher.rb:51:in
`eval_match''
  from 
/home/jmcervera/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299 at
rails3/gems/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.15/lib/rspec/matchers/operator_matcher.rb:29:in
`==''
  from (irb):41






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The updated_at has class ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone

v.updated_at.should == f.updated_at fails
v.updated_at.to_datetime.should == f.to_datetime.updated_at fails

v.updated_at.to_s.should == f.updated_at.to_s works
v.updated_at.to_i.should == f.updated_at.to_i works

And adding this method to the model doesn''t work either.

  def ==(other)
    (self.attributes.merge(:created_at => 
Datetime.new(self.created_at.to_s),
                           :updated_at => 
Datetime.new(self.updated_at.to_s)) =    (other.attributes.merge(:created_at
=>
Datetime.new(self.other_at.to_s),
                            :updated_at => 
Datetime.new(self.other_at.to_s))
  end

Thanks
Juanma
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