Whoops replied to the wrong message! Thanks Rick, that worked perfectly. James On Oct 15, 2:56 am, "J2M" <james2mccar... / gmail.com> wrote: > Good idea Dave, I will give that a go. > > Thanks, > James > > On Oct 15, 2:49 am, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat... / gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10/14/06, J2M <james2mccar... / gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have a namespace Foo and a class Bas and a class Bar. I am adding > > > classes Bas & Bar are both inside the namespace Foo. > > > > module Foo > > > class Bas > > > . > > > end > > > > class Bar > > > . > > > end > > > end > > > > I have some dynamically added classes that are subclasses of Bar, but I > > > want them to be in a namespace under Foo::Bas e.g. Foo::Bas::ThisClass > > > & Foo::Bar::ThatClass... > > > > This all works, but I would like to include some code that runs in the > > > context of ThisClass but before the contents of > > > file_name_where_this_class_is_defined, but the catch is I cannot assume > > > the names of the classes being loaded from the file, therefore I am > > > looking for a callback that is run in context of ThisClass as soon as > > > ThisClass is defined.I don't see a callback when a class (or any constant for that matter) > > is added to a module. > > > On the other hand, can you do what you want by overriding > > Foo::Bar.inherited ? At least you can tell when a subclass has been > > created. > > > -- > > Rick DeNatale > > > My blog on Rubyhttp://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/