From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2007-05-03T05:10:25+09:00
Subject: Re: simple subclass question

Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) schrieb:
> In point of fact, I can work around the @foods.nil? case in the
> self.foods method, but I'd rather figure out either how to do this or
> why it's a bad idea to do it. :)

Donald, I would add

   def self.my_foods
     @foods ||= []
   end

and then use my_foods instead of @foods in the other two methods. You 
could also take a look at Ara's attributes library:

   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/attributes/attributes-3.2.0/README

Regards,
Pit