From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T04:13:34+09:00
Subject: Re: defining a 'puts' or a 'print' for a class

It would and it does. Thanks Dale for your response!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Martenson [mailto:dmartenson@multitech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:02 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: defining a 'puts' or a 'print' for a class


On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:48, Zach Dennis wrote:
    I've got a class called Email and right now i have:
    
    class Email
    	def initialize
    		....stuff here....
    	end
    
    	def print
    		return ....stuff here....
    	end
    end
    
    
    e = Email.new( ...stuff here... )
    puts Email.print
    
    
    
    But I would love to say:
    
    puts Email
    
    to get the same result.
    
    Any ideas?
    
You could do something like:

     class Email
        def initialize(email)
           @email = email
        end
        
        def to_s
          @email
        end
     end

     e = Email.new("bob@mail.com")

     puts e

Would that work for you?