From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-09-17T23:06:12+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)
> ----------------------
> class User
> 
> 	attr_writer :firstName

Just an additional note: the usual conventions for method and variable 
identifiers in Ruby is to separate words by underscore and use camel 
case only for class and module names.  So that would rather be

class User
   attr_accessor :first_name
end


Kind regards

	robert