Associations handle case-equality more consistently: item.parts.is_a?(Array) and item.parts === Array. Closes #1345.

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@3043 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

activerecord/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Associations handle case-equality more consistently: item.parts.is_a?(Array) and item.parts === Array.  #1345 [MarkusQ@reality.com]
+
 * SQLServer: insert uses given primary key value if not nil rather than SELECT @@IDENTITY.  #2866 [kajism@yahoo.com, Tom Ward <tom@popdog.net>]
 
 * Oracle: active? and reconnect! methods for handling stale connections.  Optionally retry queries after reconnect.  #428 [Michael Schoen <schoenm@earthlink.net>]

activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb

@@ -17,15 +17,22 @@ module ActiveRecord
         reset
       end
       
+      def respond_to?(symbol, include_priv = false)
+        proxy_respond_to?(symbol, include_priv) || (load_target && @target.respond_to?(symbol, include_priv))
+      end
+
+      # Explicitly proxy === because the instance method removal above
+      # doesn't catch it.
+      def ===(other)
+        load_target
+        other === @target
+      end
+
       def reload
         reset
         load_target
       end
 
-      def respond_to?(symbol, include_priv = false)
-        proxy_respond_to?(symbol, include_priv) || (load_target && @target.respond_to?(symbol, include_priv))
-      end
-
       def loaded?
         @loaded
       end
@@ -98,4 +105,4 @@ module ActiveRecord
         end
     end
   end
-end
+end

activerecord/test/associations_test.rb

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ class HasOneAssociationsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
   def test_triple_equality
     assert Account === companies(:first_firm).account
+    assert companies(:first_firm).account === Account
   end
 
   def test_type_mismatch
@@ -280,6 +281,11 @@ class HasManyAssociationsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal 2, Firm.find(:first).clients.length
   end
 
+  def test_triple_equality
+    assert !(Array === Firm.find(:first).clients)
+    assert Firm.find(:first).clients === Array
+  end
+
   def test_finding_default_orders
     assert_equal "Summit", Firm.find(:first).clients.first.name
   end
@@ -747,6 +753,11 @@ class BelongsToAssociationsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_nothing_raised { account.firm = account.firm }
   end
 
+  def test_triple_equality
+    assert Client.find(3).firm === Firm
+    assert Firm === Client.find(3).firm
+  end
+
   def test_type_mismatch
     assert_raise(ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch) { Account.find(1).firm = 1 }
     assert_raise(ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch) { Account.find(1).firm = Project.find(1) }
@@ -1026,6 +1037,11 @@ class HasAndBelongsToManyAssociationsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert active_record.developers.include?(david)
   end
 
+  def test_triple_equality
+    assert !(Array === Developer.find(1).projects)
+    assert Developer.find(1).projects === Array
+  end
+
   def test_adding_single
     jamis = Developer.find(2)
     jamis.projects.reload # causing the collection to load