Total newbie: Instance variables in ruby?

Question

Pardon the total newbiew question but why is @game_score always nil?

#bowling.rb

class Bowling
  @game_score = 0
    def hit(pins)
        @game_score = @ga         


        

Answer 1

@game_score will never get a value of zero here - you need to put it inside initialize, as in

def initialize @game_score = 0 end