On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:52:58PM +0900, Double Minus wrote: > I want to use shoes to be able to download the body of a website that a > user enters in an edit_line. How can I make this work? You're very, very close. The problem is that instance variables aren't shared between windows. You can use a normal variable `url` or, if you really need to use an instance variable, you can use `owner.instance_variable_get("@url")` to get to it. A good section to read in the docs is the "Block Redirection" stuff, basically the first two sections on this page: <http://help.shoooes.net/Rules.html> _why