From: "Marcin Mielżyński" <lopx@...>
Date: 2006-09-17T21:36:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Why don't these writable atributes work?

Edward wrote:
> Both of these code examples for making class properties don't work
> although they are pretty much straight out of the book "Programming
> Ruby". What I am doing wrong here?
> 
> error is: undefined method `firstName' for #<User:0xb7f76b24
> @firstName="Newton"> (NoMethodError)
> ----------------------

you didn't create an attribute reader:

attr_accessor :firstName - creates both reader and writer

attr_writer :firstName - creates a writer

attr_reader :firstName - creates a reader (the one that you need)

You can also create a reader by hand:

def firstName
	@firstName
end


lopex