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Add new "Identity Comparison" rule #835

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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions README.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -2198,6 +2198,19 @@ something = something && something.downcase
something &&= something.downcase
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=== Identity Comparison [[identity-comparison]]

Prefer `equal?` over `==` when comparing `object_id`. `Object#equal?` is provided to compare objects for identity, and in contrast `Object#==` is provided for the purpose of doing value comparison.

[source,ruby]
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# bad
foo.object_id == bar.object_id

# good
foo.equal?(bar)
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=== Explicit Use of the Case Equality Operator [[no-case-equality]]

Avoid explicit use of the case equality operator `===`.
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