rtilley wrote: > Farrel Lifson wrote: >> Does pass actually do anything like print to stdout "some_function not >> yet defined"? > > No, it's just a place holder. > Empty methods are acceptable in Ruby, and they have a return value of nil. def some_method end This way your code can call this method. It just won't do anything useful until you go back and implement the method body later. Jeff www.softiesonrails.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.