How can one set property values when initializing an object in Ruby?

Question

Given the following class:

class Test
  attr_accessor :name
end

When I create the object, I want to do the following:

t = Test         


        

Answer 1

As mentioned by others, the easiest way to do this would be to define an initialize method. If you don't want to do that, you could make your class inherit from Struct.

class Test < Struct.new(:name)
end

So now:

>> t = Test.new("Some Test Object")
=> #
>> t.name
=> "Some Test Object"