James Gray wrote: > How are you going to assign a variable (iText = ...), and then > convince Ruby to treat it as a method (to trigger method_missing())? > I just tested this with a quick one and found that if you do something like object.iTest=5 Then method_missing will get 'iTest=' as the symbol, and 'n' as an argument. Then it's a simple matter of trimming the 'i' off the front and returning the result of '(test=n).to_i'. _Kevin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.