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

You can use konstructor gem to declare multiple constructors in Ruby and imitate overloading:

class Person
  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end

  konstructor
  def from_two_names(first_name, last_name)
    @name = first_name + ' ' + last_name
  end
end

Person.new('John Doe')
Person.from_two_names('John', 'Doe')