From: Steve Tu <lists@...>
Date: 2012-11-27T18:40:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Novice: Understanding instance 'variables' and methods

carlo,
Got it.

So in the :symbols Test  code, the problem was where I added the 
accessor.
The original code just had the method 'test' which in effect was a 
setter (presumably in Ruby parlance it could have been better called 
test= ?).
I then added the 'attr_accessor :test' which presumably added a test= 
method, leaving the original 'test' method. So what I in effect ended up 
with were two setter methods 'test' (the original, which set @test to 
10) and a new setter accessor (test=) that would set @test to whatever 
value I passed. I didn't actualyy have a getter method called 'test'.

Now that starts to make sense, as every time I used t.test, I ended up 
with the 'puts' lines.

Didn't take me long eh? Sorry for being a bit thick.

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