IME the thing with getters and setters is that everyone is doing it (inertia) and that other options either suck (syntactically) or break the "everything is a c

IME the thing with getters and setters is that everyone is doing it (inertia) and that other options either suck (syntactically) or break the "everything is a class" constraint. Ruby is far from being my favorite language, but I like how Structs "solve" the getter/setter problem in it: my_struct = Struct.new(:field_one, :field_two) It doesn't clutter your code with multiple lines of boilerplate, and it returns a regular class for you to use, not breaking the "everything is a class" constraint.