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Thanks Patrick. You were right about the constructor call. It was my
mistake. Now without it, it returns nil as you indicated.

::akbar


>
> Maybe this will help clarify:
>
> class Foo
>    attr_reader :bar
>
>    def go_to_the_bar
>      @bar = 'anytime'
>    end
> end
>
> foo = Foo.new
> p foo.bar
> foo.go_to_the_bar
> p foo.bar
>
> There is no error, accessing the instance variable @bar, from the
> reader (it has a value of nil) -- it is created on the fly. I am
> guessing you commented out your initialize, but were still calling the
> constructor with parameters?
>
> pth
>
>

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