refactored Time#<=> and DateTime#<=> by removing unnecessary calls without losing performance

Signed-off-by: Santiago Pastorino <santiago@wyeworks.com>

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb
index 8d01376f1d..8d924ad420 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 require 'rational' unless RUBY_VERSION >= '1.9.2'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/object/acts_like'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/zones'
 
 class DateTime
   class << self
@@ -105,11 +103,7 @@ class DateTime
   end
 
   # Layers additional behavior on DateTime#<=> so that Time and ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instances can be compared with a DateTime
-  def compare_with_coercion(other)
-    other = other.comparable_time if other.respond_to?(:comparable_time)
-    other = other.to_datetime unless other.acts_like?(:date)
-    compare_without_coercion(other)
+  def <=>(other)
+    super other.to_datetime
   end
-  alias_method :compare_without_coercion, :<=>
-  alias_method :<=>, :compare_with_coercion
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb
index 6e4b69f681..7e134db118 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 require 'active_support/duration'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date/acts_like'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date/calculations'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions'
 
 class Time
   COMMON_YEAR_DAYS_IN_MONTH = [nil, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]
@@ -283,14 +280,8 @@ class Time
   # Layers additional behavior on Time#<=> so that DateTime and ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instances
   # can be chronologically compared with a Time
   def compare_with_coercion(other)
-    # if other is an ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone, coerce a Time instance from it so we can do <=> comparison
-    other = other.comparable_time if other.respond_to?(:comparable_time)
-    if other.acts_like?(:date)
-      # other is a Date/DateTime, so coerce self #to_datetime and hand off to DateTime#<=>
-      to_datetime.compare_without_coercion(other)
-    else
-      compare_without_coercion(other)
-    end
+    # we're avoiding Time#to_datetime cause it's expensive
+    other.is_a?(Time) ? compare_without_coercion(other.to_time) : to_datetime <=> other
   end
   alias_method :compare_without_coercion, :<=>
   alias_method :<=>, :compare_with_coercion
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
index 3da216ac78..c66aa78ce8 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
 
     # A TimeWithZone acts like a Time, so just return +self+.
     def to_time
-      self
+      utc
     end
 
     def to_datetime