On 7/20/06, Ben Zealley <transhumanist / gmail.com> wrote: > is the best way to do it. I can populate an array, but let's > hypothesise that for reasons relating to irritating corporate coding > standards, the variables need specific names... ;) I am sure some of the real Ruby hackers will have a better solution, but you can do something like: a,b,c = Array.new(3).map { Foo.new(42) } pth