Most concise way to test string equality (not object equality) for Ruby strings or symbols?

Question

I always do this to test string equality in Ruby:

if mystring.eql?(yourstring)
 puts \"same\"
else
 puts \"different\"
end

Is this is the corre

Answer 1

According to http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Ruby_String_Concatenation_and_Comparison

Doing either

mystring == yourstring

or

mystring.eql? yourstring

Are equivalent.