Ruby Banter #002: The Boat Posted in Development on September 20, 2007 The sort method in Ruby uses the boat operator, sometimes called ‘spaceship’, to compare object instances. In this episode Manfred shows how you can make your objects sortable by defining the boat operator. Watch Video Tags: Ruby, Ruby Banter Related Search Queries videos tech videos boats ruby boat operator Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.