From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T21:47:52+09:00
Subject: Question on setting up a class and searching on objects

I'm working from Ruby for Rails book but want to try and just
replicate some of the examples in Ruby alone.
One method in particular is called whole_name and would give the user
the ability to search a list by first_name, middle_name, or last_name.

So I went ahead and set up my class and objects, but have a few
questions (below code)
class Composer

def listcomp (first_name, middle_name, last_name)
f = first_name
m = middle_name
l = last_name
end

def whole_name
    first_name + " " +
    (if middle_name then middle_name + " " else "" end) +
    last_name
end
end

comp1 = Composer.new
comp2 = Composer.new
comp3 = Composer.new
comp4 = Composer.new
comp5 = Composer.new

comp1.listcomp("ludwig","van","bethoven")
comp2.listcomp("wolfgang","amadeus","mozart")
comp3.listcomp("franz", "joseph", "hayden")
comp4.listcomp("George", "frederic", "Handel")
comp5.listcomp("Johann", "sebastian", "bach")

Question - I'm having a problem calling to the class method
whole_name. The method is defined without any arguments so how could
it be called ?

Question - Did I set up the class correctly , defining the new object
outside of the class definition ? And would it be better to create an
array (multidimensional) for the composers instead of initializing
each one seperately ? (If this question makes sense)

Apologies if this question is sort of lame.

TIA
Stuart