From: Jason Foreman <threeve.org@...>
Date: 2005-07-06T04:24:19+09:00
Subject: Re: What is wrong in this code ... ???

On 7/5/05, Faisal Raja <Raja.Faisal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ,
> Well Im new to programming in Ruby Language ( Infact only an hour back
> i started it ) .
> 
> class Student
> 
>         def initialize(name)
> 
>         @name = name
> 
>         end
> 
>         def show
> 
>                 s = "Name : " + name
>                 return s
> 
> 
>         end
> end
> 
> 
> st = Student.new("Abc") ;
> st.inspect
> 
> I have Windows Xp Sp2 n when i run this program on console , it doesn't
> show me anything . There is no error but it is also not shwoing me
> anything .
> 

you aren't printing anything.  Try putting "p st.inspect" instead of
just "st.inspect".

> st.inspect should show info
> st.to_s also doesn't show anything
> 
> 
> if i write st.show
> it also doesn't work .

this is because you reference 'name' which is a local variable, but
what you meant is to access '@name' which is the instance variable.

Try this instead:  s = "Name: " + @name

> I wuld be thankful if u people help me out
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 


Jason