From: Marc Chanliau <marc.chanliau@...>
Date: 2011-02-27T10:29:41+09:00
Subject: Newbie question

In Ruby it seems you can instantiate a class inside the class itself or
outside. What is the accepted convention?

In the following example, instantiation is inside the class:

class Person
  attr_accessor :name, :age, :gender

  def initialize(name, age, gender)
    @name = name
    @age = age.to_i
    @gender = gender
  end

  # method to print a new person
  def printIt
    print "    "
    print name
    print ", "
    print age
    print ", "
    print gender
    puts
  end

  # generating instances and printing them from inside the class itself
person_instance = Person.new("Jessica", 17, "female")
person_instance.printIt
person_instance = Person.new("Marc", 60, "male")
person_instance.printIt
person_instance = Person.new("Linda", 56, "female")
person_instance.printIt

end

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