From: Andrew Wagner <wagner.andrew@...>
Date: 2011-01-05T23:41:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Initialization?

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Kedar Mhaswade <kedar.mhaswade@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a class and two class methods: self.encode and self.decode. The
> encode method expects a class variable (@@table) to be "initialized".
> Whereas it's possible to do that in def self.encode(bytes) method of my
> class, I was interested to know if I can do that elsewhere (static
> blocks, a la Java?). What is the recommended way to do such class
> initialization tasks?
>
> -Kedar
>
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>

If I'm understanding right, something like one of these should work:

class MyClass
  @@table = 42;

  def self.encode(bytes)
    //...
  end

  def self.decode
    //...
   end
end

OR

class MyClass
  def self.initialize_table
    @@table = ...
  end

  initialize_table

  def self.encode(bytes)
    //...
  end

  def self.decode
    //...
   end
end

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