From: alberto kaputchella <linuxuser10101@...>
Date: 2011-09-16T05:39:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Some newbie questions

Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer wrote in post #1022210:
> I got some newbie questions which I would very much appreciate if
> someone could answer (in a way that a newbie would understand):
>
> 1. What does @ mean in Ruby? Im sure I have seen variables like this:
> @variable. A new datatype like the :symbol perhaps?
>

The @ means that the variable is an object variable, its scope is 
within, and is associated to, the current object.

For example,

class Person
  def initialize(name)
       @name=name
  end

  def say_your_name
       puts @name
  end

In this class, you assign the name provided to the class to @name.
@name as an object variable, is then accessible from any other method
inside the object.

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