From: Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
Date: 2004-04-04T23:45:33+09:00
Subject: good module use?

Hi,

I thought to create a module to add an instance variable representing 
the connection to a database:

module MyDbModule
       attr :conn
       require "postgres"
       pghost="localhost"
       pgport=nil
       pgoptions=nil
       pgtty=nil
       dbname="mydb"
       user='mylogin'
       password='mypassword'
  	@conn=PGconn.connect(pghost,pgport,pgoptions,pgtty,dbname,user,password)

end

However, this doesn't work. The Pickaxe describes modules as a group of 
calsses, methods, constants, which my modules doens't respect (no method 
defined).

Is there a way to achieve what I'm trying, and in the case that it would 
be possible, is it a good approach?

An alternative would be to put all code in a method and call this method 
to initialise @conn. I'm wondering if I can get rid of the call to this 
method though.


Thanks.

Raph