From: Ropebender <ropebender@...>
Date: 2009-01-14T08:34:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Very rank beginner.

The tutorial was on http://www.ruby-lang.org/

It was the tutorial in the sidebar "Ruby in 20 minutes"

Worked fine until I tried to define a class Greeter.  Instructions said to 
initialize Greeter with (name = "World") and then define an object g to set 
the @name.  It didn't woork like the tutorial said.

=> nil

irb(main):033:0> class Greeter

irb(main):034:1>   def initialize(name = "World")

irb(main):035:2>     end

irb(main):036:1>   def say_hi

irb(main):037:2>     puts "Hi #{@name}!"

irb(main):038:2>     end

irb(main):039:1>   def say_bye

irb(main):040:2>     puts "Bye #{@name}!"

irb(main):041:2>     end

irb(main):042:1>   end

=> nil

irb(main):043:0> g = Greeter.new("Pat")

=> #<Greeter:0x63075a4>

irb(main):044:0> g.say_hi

Hi !

=> nil

 irb(main):061:0> g = Greeter.new("Andy")

=> #<Greeter:0x62e3924>

irb(main):062:0> g

=> #<Greeter:0x62e3924>

irb(main):063:0>





Looks like the initialize never worked.  Any suggestions?







"Tim Greer" <tim@burlyhost.com> wrote in message 
news:H28bl.10476$qi.9172@newsfe09.iad...
> Ropebender wrote:
>
>> Help.  I am a really new beginner looking at Ruby for the first time.
>> I was trying to go through the tutorial "Ruby in 20 minutes" on a
>> Windows XP machine using fxri.
>>
>> Some of the code does not work as in the examples.  Who should I ask
>> for help?
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions (even flames are welcome )
>>
>> Van!!
>
> What site were you using the ruby tutorial from?  What parts of the code
> didn't work, what were the problems or errors?  If you've tried the
> code and searched for answers, then you'd probably ask here.
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