From: Kedar Mhaswade <kedar.mhaswade@...>
Date: 2010-12-09T23:12:04+09:00
Subject: Convetion regarding accessing attributes (from within instance methods).

I observed that once I have defined attr_accessor for an attribute of a
class, I can access it with or without an '@' leading the name of
attribute (i.e. both [1] and [2] work correctly).

I find accessing it without leading '@' more natural (when there are no
conflicts with local variables).

What is the Ruby community convention in this regard?

Regards,
Kedar

[1]
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
class Car
  attr_accessor :color
    def initialize(color)
      @color = color
    end

  def print_color
    puts @color
  end
end

c = Car.new("blue")
c.print_color

[2]
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
class Car
  attr_accessor :color
    def initialize(color)
      @color = color
    end

  def print_color
    puts color
  end
end

c = Car.new("blue")
c.print_color

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