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Ruby

Sameh Hanna
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Sameh Hanna
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What does object = new(attributes) does in Ruby?

def create(attributes) object = new(attributes) instances.push(object) return object end in the above code, i don't know how we really initialise a new object. can someone please explain to me this syntex

1 Answer

Sameh Hanna
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Sameh Hanna
Courses Plus Student 10,617 Points

Actually i found the answer, my confusion was that new should be always associated with a class to create an instance of this class. when the method is a class method so the context here is the class then new(attributes) is equal to self.new(attributes) and self can be omitted.

Thanks anyway