Issue #1082 has been updated by Kornelius Kalnbach. +1 I thought this feature was already added to 1.9? class << self; self; end is not very helpful for beginners. What about singleton_class_eval? (Or singleton_class.eval, for that matter...) ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1082 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org