Ruby Programming/Reference/Objects/Time

      class Tuesdays
        attr_accessor :time, :place
 
        def initialize(time, place)
                @time = time
                @place = place
        end
end
 
feb12 = Tuesdays.new("8:00", "Rice U.")


      As for the object, it is clever let me give you some advice though. Firstly, you don't ever want to store a date or time as a string. This is always a mistake. -- though for learning purposes it works out, as in your example. In real life, simply not so. Lastly, you created a class called Tuesdays without specifying what would make it different from a class called Wednesday; that is to say the purpose is nebulous: there is nothing special about Tuesdays to a computer. If you have to use comments to differentiate Tuesdays from Wednesdays you typically fail.

      class Event
        def initialize( place, time=Time.new )
                @place = place
 
                case time.class.to_s
                        when "Array"
                                @time = Time.gm( *time )
                        when "Time"
                                @time = time
                        else
                                throw "invalid time type"
                end
        end
 
        attr_accessor :time, :place
 
end
 
## Event at 5:00PM 2-2-2009  CST
funStart = Event.new( "evan-hodgson day", [0,0,17,2,2,2009,2,nil,false,"CST"] )
 
## Event now, (see time=Time.new -- the default in constructor)
rightNow = Event.new( "NOW!" );
 
## You can compaire Event#time to any Time object!!
if Time.new > funStart.time
        puts "We're there"
else
        puts "Not yet"
end
 
## Because the constructor takes two forms of time, you can do
## Event.new( "Right now", Time.gm(stuff here) )
      Last modified on 20 July 2009, at 18:42