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

checkout functional-ruby gem which is inspired by Elixir pattern matching features.

   class Person
     include Functional::PatternMatching

     defn(:initialize, String) { |name| 
       @name = name 
     }

     defn(:initialize, String, String) {|first_name, last_name| 
      @name = first_name + ' ' + last_name
     }
   end