Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.0.9 and I would like to check if a object is a class or a class instance. For example if I have

Article  # It is a class name
@article # It is an instance of the Article class

maybe I may do something like the following:

kind?(Article)  # => class
kind?(@article) # => class_instance

How can I retrieve that information?

Answer 1

Object has a method called class:

@article.class # => Article

There’s also kind_of?:

if @article.kind_of? Class
   # class type
elsif @article.kind_of? Article
   # other type
end