Instance Variables

Now that we’ve learned how the string that we pass to the new method passes to the new object’s initialize method, we can start improving initialize. We want it to do something with the string and actually initialize our new object:

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

This introduces a new type of variable called an instance variable. The @name is what we call an instance variable. The @ symbol at the beginning of ...