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Classes like Language and Person are great when you are starting to learn the concepts of classes and instances.

However, classes and objects are often used to model real-world objects. The code in the editor is a more realistic demonstration of the kind of classes and objects you might find in commercial software. Here we have a snippet of the Rails source code. See how they’ve created an instance of the RecordInvalid class?

Instructions

Most of the syntax should look familiar to you; the raise bit (which we’ll cover in future lessons) generates a new RecordInvalid error if the user tries to create or save an invalid record.

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