Ruby Programming/Reference/Objects/Time
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classTuesdays attr_accessor:time,:place definitialize(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.
classEvent definitialize(place,time=Time.new) @place=place casetime.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!! ifTime.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) )