hi I initialize it and it worked ... but when can I use the attr_reader as a short cut thankx m Freeze wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2001, bashar asad wrote: > > > hello; > > am very new to ruby...and am trying to use attr_reader to create the > > accessor methods like this > > > > class SomeClass > > attr_reader :name1 , :name2 > > end > > nClass = SomeClass.new("hello","hello") > > > > it bombs on SomeClass.new > > You need to define initialize > > class SomeClass > def initialize(name1, name2) > #your code here > end > end > > ========================================================= > Jim Freeze > jim / freeze.org > --------------------------------------------------------- > No comment at this time. > http://www.freeze.org > ========================================================= -- Bashar A. Asad