Quote: Ruby instance variables are always protected; accessible to subclasses only

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[In Ruby,] you may not export an object's instance … "protected" concept.) Instead, Ruby has attributes: methods that … … or use the Ruby shortcuts [e.g., attr_accessor :title]   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: use Ruby attributes to get and set instance variables; define explicitly or via 'attr_accessor', etc.

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