Marc Heiler wrote: > How to solve the above? Using a big hash which keeps all > aliases and only leave a single entry per when line, like so? Hashing is fine. Some alternatives: Regex: when /^f(oo(bar)?)?$/ Splat: FOOBAR = %w{ f foo foobar } ... when *FOOBAR -- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407