canvas-lms/lib/sort_first.rb

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Ruby

#
# Copyright (C) 2011 Instructure, Inc.
#
# This file is part of Canvas.
#
# Canvas is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free
# Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
#
# Canvas is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
# WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
# A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more
# details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along
# with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
class SortFirstClass
include Comparable
def <=>(b)
b.is_a?(SortFirstClass) ? 0 : -1
end
# String#<=> checks if its arg is a string, and if it's not, calls to_str.
# as long as to_str doesn't throw an error, then it calls arg <=> self,
# ignoring the result of to_str. I figured to_str result of nil makes more
# sense than returning a non-string from to_str
def to_str
nil
end
def to_datetime
-Date::Infinity.new
end
def inspect
'SortFirst'
end
# when coercing, we're inverting the operation, so invert the result
def coerce(something)
[SortLast, something]
end
end
SortFirst = SortFirstClass.new