I'm not even sure if this would be possible but I think I need some help. In the spirit of the method_missing hall of fame, I want to be able to do..sort of a nested method_missing. how can i get at Instance.bogus_member1.bogus_member2 bogus_member2 through the class of Instance? Or better yet, suppose bogus_member1 returned an object, how could I get at bogus_member2 through the class of the object of bogus_member1? I've tried just using method_missing statements in 2 different classes, but Ruby seems to want to perform the last method first - and because bogus_member1 doesn't exist its trying to call something from NilClass. Ideally, what will happen is that bogus_member1 will be an object that will be instantiated based on its own criteria - for example, suppose every day of school you had a new teacher School.MrSmith.homework but the next day School.MrsJones.homework MrSmith & MrsJones are objects that get instantiated as Teachers based on their criteria - class School def method_missing(*args) ... Teachers.new(args[0]) end What i'd like to do is at that same line... Teacher.new(args[0]).send(args[1..-1])) But it seems as if Ruby is going in the other direction.(end to start) What can I do?