What is the best way to invoke inhirited instance method within constructor?

Ruby
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The question is as of the title. Say I have a simple example below:

class Vehicle
attr_accessor :wheels
end

class Car < Vehicle
def initialize
self.wheels = 4
end
end

class Truck < Vehicle
def initialize
@wheels = 16
end
end

I am curious which way is considered correct or better to invoke
wheels writer method of mother Vehicle?

2

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Jones L. [email protected] wrote:

end
end

class Truck < Vehicle
def initialize
@wheels = 16
end
end

I am curious which way is considered correct or better to invoke
wheels writer method of mother Vehicle?

Truck#initialize does not invoke any writer method at all but plain
assigns an instance variable @wheels. If you have a writer method
then it is generally considered much more robust to use it (like you
did in Car#initialize) because the writer might do more than to just
assign to a local variable (e.g. validity checks which ensure the
value is an integer value and greater or equal to 0).

Kind regards

robert