In Ruby is there a way to overload the initialize constructor?

Question

In Java you can overload constructors:

public Person(String name) {
  this.name = name;
}
public Person(String firstName, String lastName) {
   this(firstNam         


        

Answer 1

I tend to do

class Person
  def self.new_using_both_names(first_name, last_name)
    self.new([first_name, last_name].join(" "))
  end

  def self.new_using_single_name(single_name)
    self.new(single_name)
  end

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end
end

But I don't know if this is the best approach.