module XeroGateway class Account attr_accessor :code, :name, :type, :tax_type, :description def initialize(params = {}) params.each do |k,v| self.instance_variable_set("@#{k}", v) ## create and initialize an instance variable for this key/value pair self.send("#{k}=", v) end end def ==(other) [:code, :name, :type, :tax_type, :description].each do |field| return false if send(field) != other.send(field) end return true end end end