From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T05:33:03+09:00
Subject: Re: object.inspect not working

On May 28, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Navya Amerineni wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i am very new to Ruby.
> I stared writing very basic programs
> The below is one of my program
> class Song
>     def initialize(name, artist, duration)
>         @name=name
>         @artist=artist
>         @duration=duration
>     end
>     def myclass_function
>         puts "this is my first class"
>     end
> end
> class1=Song.new("Navya","Teja",540)
> class1.myclass_function
> class1.inspect
>
>
> i am not getting any any output for the statement
> class1.inspect

inspect() returns a String which is often used to contain useful  
debugging information.  inspect() does not print that String.

> what might be possible correction

You need to ask Ruby to print the String to the screen.  Try changing  
the last line to:

puts class1.inspect

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II