From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-07-24T02:25:23+09:00
Subject: Re: multiple constructors?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM, aidy <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to use multiple constructors in Ruby?
>
> class SQLServerConnection
>
>  def initialize(server_name, db)
>
>  end
>
>  def initialize(server_name, db, user_name, password)
>
>  end
> end

You can send your initialize an array or hash, or you can do

class C
  def initialize( a, b, *c )
    #verify and do stuff
  end
end

hth,
Todd