How to cleanly initialize attributes in Ruby with new?

Question

class Foo
  attr_accessor :name, :age, :email, :gender, :height

  def initalize params
    @name = params[:name]
    @age = params[:age]
    @email = params[:email]         


        

Answer 1

Using all keys from params is not correct, you can define unwilling names. I think it should be kinda white list of names

class Foo
   @@attributes = [:name, :age, :email, :gender, :height]  

   @@attributes.each do |attr|
     class_eval { attr_accessor "#{attr}" }
   end  

   def initialize params
     @@attributes.each do |attr|
       instance_variable_set("@#{attr}", params[attr]) if params[attr]
     end  
   end
end

Foo.new({:name => 'test'}).name #=> 'test'