[MacRuby-devel] #init, or #initialize

[Rob Gleeson]

On 24 Feb 2011, at 13:26, Eloy Durán wrote:

> I use #init whenever I’m dealing with Cocoa(-like) classes and #initialize when it's pure Ruby. I do the same with regards to camel and snake casing. Also note that #init is not supposed to take arguments, whereas #initialize may definitely do so.
> 
> Any classes that inherit from NSObject directly will have #initialize called if #init is called on them:
> 
> % cat t.rb
> class PureRubyClass
>  def initialize
>    puts "here!"
>  end
> end
> 
> PureRubyClass.alloc.init
> 
> % macruby t.rb
> here!
> 

Alright, thanks for clarifying. 
The camelCase and snake_case difference is something I've been trying to get use to as well. I think I'll adopt your style :)

--
Rob