Classes and Instances
All Ruby data consists of objects that are
instances of some class. Even a class itself is an object that is an
instance of the Class class. As a general rule,
new instances are created using the new method of
a class, but there are some exceptions (such as the
Fixnum class).
a = Array::new s = String::new o = Object::new
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