On 6/19/05, R. Mark Volkmann <mark / ociweb.com> wrote: > What is the recommended way in Ruby to prevent other classes from creating > instances of a given class? The class isn't a singleton. It creates several > instances of itself and no additional instances should be able to be created. > > I considered making the new method private, but thought there might be a better > way. What could be a better way than making new private? :) The simplest solution is the best! -- gavri http://livejournal.com/users/ga_woo