From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-05-27T17:37:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Can an initialize method fail?

In message <46593D6A.5010300@blackkettle.org>, Alex Young writes:
>I'd use a different class method, like User.login, or some such.  Then 
>you can return either a valid User instance or nil as required.  If you 
>want to completely avoid exceptions, you'll either need to have a 
>#valid? method in the instance, or actually do the credential validation 
>at the class level (which seems slightly wrong to me, but there you go). 

Oh, that might be a good choice.  Might even be a good case for one
of those factory methods.  :)  Hadn't thought of that, but I like it.
That might simplify some logic elsewhere.

-s