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acts_like?

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acts_like?(duck) public

A duck-type assistant method. For example, Active Support extends Date to define an acts_like_date? method, and extends Time to define acts_like_time?. As a result, we can do x.acts_like?(:time) and x.acts_like?(:date) to do duck-type-safe comparisons, since classes that we want to act like Time simply need to define an acts_like_time? method.

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/acts_like.rb, line 9
  def acts_like?(duck)
    case duck
    when :time
      respond_to? :acts_like_time?
    when :date
      respond_to? :acts_like_date?
    when :string
      respond_to? :acts_like_string?
    else
      respond_to? :"acts_like_#{duck}?"
    end
  end

acts_like?

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