If you are in Ruby, you don't get a choice about accessors: "@foo" and "@bar" are private member variables. You have to create accessors for them. Like you said, though, the accessor / property generation command is easy: "attr_accessor :foo, :bar"

Even if the (Java, or otherwise) IDE can generate piles of crap code, I still hate reading piles of crap code, though. Sometimes I just want a "struct" :-)

Now back to my Java work...