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State and Behaviour

State and Behaviour

This lesson focuses on state, behavior and encapsulation in Ruby methods.

Data and methods

Lets have another look our class definition for Person:

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class Person
  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end
  def name
    @name
  end
  def password=(password)
    @password = password
  end
end

Do you notice something?

Our class demonstrates an important thing about objects:

There’s a way to ask a person for their name, but no way to set a new name. On the other hand, there’s a way to set a new password to the person, but no way to ask for it. ...

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