From: Bhrgunatha Deva <akiba.rubynstein@...>
Date: 2006-03-21T19:20:25+09:00
Subject: Class (not instance) initializers

Newbie question:

Is there an equivalent to a static constructor in ruby?
something like:

class MyClass
   # want this to run before any instances of MyClass are created
   def class_initialize
     self.some_complex_initialisation
   end
end

At the moment I'm using:
class MyClass
   def initialize
     @@init = self.some_complex_initialisation if @@init.nil?
   end
end

I'd love to know if there is a more rubyesque way of doing this

Bhrgunatha.