From: James Earl <james@...>
Date: 2011-10-06T11:33:31+09:00
Subject: Re: NameError problem

Step 2 won't make your script available to irb.  So until your script
does something else, step 2 won't do anything.

Step 3, in irb you need to:

require 'person'
p = Person.new('John', 30)

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Paul Roche <prpaulroche@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I'm sure it's been asked before, but I can't find the specific
> answer. Basically I am doing the following..........
>
>
> 1.Created a ruby file Person.rb
>
> class Person
>
> def initialize(name,age)
> @name = name
> @age = age
> end
>
> def name
> return @name
> end
>
> def age
> return @age
> end
>
> end
>
> 2. I then run it
>
> ruby Person.rb
>
> 3. Then when I try to instansiate a person object........
>
> (in irb mode)  p1 = Person.new("John",30)
>
> I get the following error......
>
> NameError: uninitialized constant Object::Person
>
> I don't understand what I'm missing.
>
> Thanks
>
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