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Ruby Ruby on Rails 5 Basics Using the Rails Console Rails Console: Creating Model Objects

Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
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Posted by Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
6,658 Points

Are there rules for naming variables that store new objects?

"We can create a new Post object by calling Post.new. We can create a new "Post" and assign it to a variable: post = Post.new"

Do we need to name the variable "post" because we're creating a new Post object? Or can we call it anything.

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Elisa Burghard
Elisa Burghard
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Elisa Burghard
Elisa Burghard
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As far as I understand it, you can generally name the variables anything you want, "pizza", "pasta", "post". Since it's likely that other developers will read your code and work with it, always give the variables sensible names. The naming convention that you should follow is: the classname will be capitalized Post, the ruby file will be named post.rb (another example: class SportsCar will be in a file called sports_car.rb).

Hope this helps and happy coding!