From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T11:35:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Attributes not populated until called?

 
> Ok, so I changed the code so the assignments are in 
> initialize(). Now I am 
> getting some broken behavior. First of all, most of the tags 
> are getting set 
> by the super class which is only supposed to happen if the 
> tag is 'comment':
...
>     @comment = super

That line calls the initialize() method from your superclass and assigns
the result of that method (coming from the last line "@tracknum =
'unknown'") to the @comment variable.

What you probably want is:

module TagDisplayer
	ATTRIBUTES = %w{title artist album genre year comment tracknum}
	attr_reader *ATTRIBUTES 
	def to_a
	   ATTRIBUTES.map {|x| send(x)}
	end
	def to_s
	   ATTRIBUTES.map {|x| "#{x.capitalize}: #{send(x)}"
}.join("\n")
	end
end

class MetaTags
  include TagDisplayer
  def initialize(filename)
    @filename = filename
    @title    = @filename[0..-5]
    @artist   = @title
    @album    = 'unknown'
    @genre    = 'unknown'
    @year     = 'unknown'
    @comment  = 'Starbellied using sneetchalizer'
    @tracknum = 'unknown'
  end
end

class OggMetaTags < MetaTags
  include TagDisplayer
  def initialize(filename)
    @filename = filename
    require 'ogginfo'
    @tags = OggInfo.new(@filename)
    @title = @tags.tag['title']
    @artist = @tags.tag['artist']
    @album = @tags.tag['album']
    @genre = @tags.tag['genre']
    @year = @tags.tag['date']
    @comment = 'Starbellied using sneetchalizer'
    @tracknum = @tags.tag['tracknumber']
  end
end