Looking to write a Tag class

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Published on 2010-04-13T03:22:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 3:22 UTC
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I'm looking to write a Tag class (a tag is a string with no spaces). My first thought is to inherit from String:

class Tag < String
  def initialize(str)
    raise ArgumentError if str =~ /\s/
    super
  end
end

Does this look correct? Are there any other methods I should redefine?

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