From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T00:42:38+09:00
Subject: Re: attr_accessor question

Alle sabato 17 marzo 2007, Corey Konrad ha scritto:
> how come this doesnt worh though?
>
> class Animal
>   attr_accessor :color
>   attr_accessor :size
>
>   def initialize(color, size)
>   @color = color
>   @size = size
>   end
> end
>
> animal = Animal.new
> animal.color = "brown"
> puts "The color of the animal is #{animal.color}"
> animal.color = "red"
> puts "Now the animal is #{animal.color}"
> animal.size = "big"
> puts "The size of the animal is #{animal.size}"
>
>
>
> thanks

Animal.new creates an instance of class Animal and calls its initialize 
method, with the arguments you passed to new. Animal#initialize requires two 
arguments, so you must pass two arguments to Animal.new. For example:

animal=Animal.new "green", "little"

I hope this helps

Stefano