From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2009-05-27T13:32:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Initialize not being called on objects created from literals

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Oliver Saunders
<oliver.saunders@gmail.com> wrote:
> Initialize doesn't appear to get called.
>
> class Object
>  def initialize
>    @foo = 'bar'
>  end
>  attr_reader :foo
> end
>
> a = Object.new # => #<Object:0x54c964 @foo="bar">

see relation bw initialize and new

> a.foo # => "bar"
> 'string'.foo # => nil
> //.foo # => nil
>
> I want to have //.foo and 'string.foo give me "bar" as they should. How
> can I do that?

try defining a method, eg

>> class Object
>>   def foo
>>     "bar"
>>   end
>> end
=> nil
>> 1.foo
=> "bar"
>> //.foo
=> "bar"