Ruby has something called a Combined Comparison or \"Spaceship\" Operator, it looks like this: <=>
It does the following:
a <=>
from: http://sabrelabs.com/post/48201437312/javascript-spaceship-operator
improved version:
function spaceship(val1, val2) {
if ((val1 === null || val2 === null) || (typeof val1 != typeof val2)) {
return null;
}
if (typeof val1 === 'string') {
return (val1).localeCompare(val2);
} else {
if (val1 > val2) {
return 1;
} else if (val1 < val2) {
return -1;
}
return 0;
}
}