In Ruby is there a way to overload the initialize constructor?

Question

In Java you can overload constructors:

public Person(String name) {
  this.name = name;
}
public Person(String firstName, String lastName) {
   this(firstNam         


        

Answer 1

class Person
  def initialize(name, lastName = nil)
    name = name + " " + lastName unless lastName.nil?
    @name = name
  end
end