From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2003-03-08T03:17:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Array of Objects?

Frank Thomas wrote:
> Hi@all!
> 
> Is it possible to make an array of objects with ruby? I thought of making a
> kind of address-manager. It uses a class "Contact", which contains the main
> data. now i want to make a class "Abook" which can make many instances of
> the class "Contact". If there is not the possibility of using arrays, what
> other options exist??

Sure:

class Contact
	# whatever you code...
	def initialize( aname = "Noname", astreet = "default" , atown = "not set" )
		@name, @street, @town = aname, astreet, atown
	end

	def to_s
		"Name: #@name, Street: #@street, Town: #@town"
	end

end

ary = [] # Or 'Array.new' if you prefer that...

ary << Contact.new("Your Name")

ary[2] = Contact.new( "MyName", "Some street")

# Note that ary[1] will be nil now...

puts ary

You may put about anything in your arrays or whatever.

Hope this helped,

Stephan