when you run irb and type: >>require 'config' >>conf a huge amount of information prints out on the screen (at least on the windows 1.8.2 one-click installer irb) what kind of container is it where does it come from etc.. i did a conf.class and got an IRB::context what kind of class is that? .i did a f=File.new('config.txt','w') f.write(config) to get a text file of its contents but don't know about it's contents -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.