From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T22:51:06+09:00
Subject: Re: does Ruby not support multiple "initialize" methods for a class???

On 3/20/07, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a class that can be created from a couple of scenarios, and for each
> the initial data to populate the class is different.  I was going to create
> two "initialize" methods with their own specific method signature to cover
> off these two scenarios however I guess I will need to perhaps just create
> two separate/normal methods for this.  Perhaps then it would be like:
>
> a = Klass.new
> a.create_for_scenario_one (...)

a = Klass.create_scenario_one(...)
b = Klass.create_scenario_two(...)

That's the more common idiom in Ruby.

-austin
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