From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T14:42:23+09:00
Subject: Re: What is attr_accessor?

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tenxian wrote:
| I even don't know what attr_accessor is.

There is this wonderful thing called 'search engine', which helps in
answering questions:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ruby%20attr_accessor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

In short: attr_accessor is shorthand to define getters and setters.

For example:

attr_accessor :my_variable creates the methods to assign and to read the
instance variable '@my_variable'. Which saves you from defining these
methods yourself.

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