Ruby: Passing parameters into new

There are a bunch of ways:

@adam = Person.new :id => 14, :name => ‘Adam’

Other ways of doing the right hand side of the expression are:

Person.new(:id => 14, :name => ‘Adam’)

Or you can use:

Person.new id: 14, name: ‘Adam’

Person.new(id: 14, name: ‘Adam’)

Person.new({id: 14, name: ‘Adam’})

Note however that:

Person.new (:id => 14, :name => ‘Adam’)

(i.e. with a space after .new) won’t work giving you a:

SyntaxError: unexpected =>, expecting ‘)’

also, just:

(:id => 14, :name => ‘Adam’)

by itself results in a syntax error.

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