From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-16T16:13:15-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01931] Re: Class Variables

"David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.com> writes:

> I DID find class constants (see I do read the manual! :-)
> 
> But I ALSO want to be able to do:
> 
> fooey.setting1 = 6;

Ah-ha! In that case, you want to use attributes

  class Foo

    attr_accessor :setting1, :setting2

    def initialize
       @setting1 = 2
       @setting2 = 5
    end
  end

  c = Foo.new

  p c.setting1 + c.setting2

  c.setting2 = 7

  p c.setting1 + c.setting2


Dave