diff --git a/test/rb/test_helper.rb b/test/rb/test_helper.rb
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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/gen-rb'
+$:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../../lib/rb/lib')
+$:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../../lib/rb/ext')
+
+require 'test/unit'
+
+module Thrift
+  module Struct
+    def ==(other)
+      return false unless other.is_a? self.class
+      self.class.const_get(:FIELDS).collect {|fid, data| data[:name] }.all? do |field|
+        send(field) == other.send(field)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end