From: Mayuresh Kathe <kathe.mayuresh@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T21:00:38+09:00
Subject: accessing instance variable

Hello,

I did the following;
class O
   @b = 0
   def x=(a)
     @b = a
   end
 end

o = O.new
o.x = 1

I then tried to access b by doing;
c = o.b

but irb gave me the following error;
NoMethodError: undefined method `b' for #<O:0xb7aac424 @b=1>
	from (irb):10
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:150:in `block (2 levels) in eval_input'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:259:in `signal_status'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:147:in `block in eval_input'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:146:in `eval_input'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:70:in `block in start'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:69:in `catch'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:69:in `start'
	from /usr/bin/irb1.9:13:in `<main>'

how do I access an instance variable if not via object.instance_variable?

Best,

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