What's up, RMers?

[kyonides]

Well, wulfo, that's because the new and initialize methods are included in Ruby C by default! Yeah, if you don't supply one for your class, Ruby will do that for you by making an empty initialize method call automatically. Whenever you define your initialize method, it stops calling its default method and executes yours instead, mainly because it's the last initialize method created for that specific class; it would call the third one in case you ever decided to overwrite it and skip the others by default. (Ruby 1.9 included in VX Ace lets you even include a hash parameter via syntatic sugar by defining its key value pairs like this: key: value, mykey: myvalue . It will later one convert it to the typical :key => value syntax anyway, but it lets you smoothly define your hash in no time.)