Is it acceptable having parameter in class constructor?

Question

a rubygem I\'m writing and that is useful for counting word occurrences in a text, I choose to put 3 parameters in class constructor.

The code is working, but I want

Answer 1

I dont know how it is in Ruby, but in other languages you usually put those arguments in the constructor signature that are needed to initialize the object into a valid state. All other state can be set through setters.