tonys / myspleenklug.on.ca (tony summerfelt) writes: > > But do you ever do things like iterate over them, or access them by name? > > i will have to iterate over them. each planet has a ship production value. so > the number of ships is going increase every year. for every planet i'll > need: > > a.ships =a.ships + a.production > > and i need that 26 times. you can see why i'm looking for a solution. Here I think I'd be looking at an array or some other collection: planets.each do |planet| planet.ships += planet.production end or something similar. Dave