Idiomatic object creation in ruby

Question

In ruby, I often find myself writing the following:

class Foo
  def initialize(bar, baz)
    @bar = bar
    @baz = baz
  end

  << more stuff >>

end

or even

class Foo
  attr_accessor :bar, :baz

  def initialize(bar, baz)
    @bar = bar
    @baz = baz
  end

  << more stuff >>

end

I'm always keen to minimise boilerplate as much as possible - so is there a more idiomatic way of creating objects in ruby?

Answer 1

One option is that you can inherit your class definition from Struct:

class Foo < Struct.new(:bar, :baz)
  # << more stuff >>
end

f = Foo.new("bar value","baz value")
f.bar #=> "bar value"
f.baz #=> "baz value"