[ruby-talk:16830] RE: Totally newbie seeks a bit of help

Hi Sen,

Looks like you've spelt initialize incorrectly. Also your last line should
be :

puts s.inspect

to get some output

So try this:
===================================
class Person
  def initialize(name, street, phone, age)
    @name = name
    @street = street
    @phone = phone
    @age = age
  end
end

s = Person.new( "Soeren", "My Street", "12345678", "21" )
puts s.inspect
=======================================

and you should get something like this:

#<Person:0xa034608  @age="21", @phone="12345678", @street="My Street",
@name="Soeren">

regards,

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Sen Munk Skrer [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, 25 June 2001 9:03 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: [ruby-talk:16829] Totally newbie seeks a bit of help


Hi ...
I've just downloaded the 'One-Click-windows installer' of Ruby (ver. 1.6.3)
.....

I've wanted to see if i could get this working, so i read a bit in the "Ruby
book" on RubyCentral.com ....

I've made a class, called Person,

## contents of file Person.rb ##
------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
class Person
  def initalize(name, street, phone, age)
    @name = name
    @street = street
    @phone = phone
    @age = age
  end
end

s = Person.new( "Soeren", "My Street", "12345678", "21" )
s.inspect
------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------


When i choose "Run file" in RubyWin, i get this response in a 'console'
window
------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
E:\Udvikling\Ruby\Test_001\Person.rb:10:in `initialize': wrong # of
arguments(4 for 0)(ArgumentError)

    from E:\Udvikling\Ruby\Test_001\Person.rb:10:in `initialize'
    from E:\Udvikling\Ruby\Test_001\Person.rb:10:in `new'
    from E:\Udvikling\Ruby\Test_001\Person.rb:10
    from E:\Udvikling\Ruby\Test_001\Person.rb:12
------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------

What am i doing wrong.... The Person-class should take 4 arguments ,,,
shouldn't it ??????

And where does the program excecution start ( I'm a Java and C++ programmer,
so i'm used to  "void main" :-))))

/Sen Munk Skrer
Odense, Denmark