"Robert Klemme" <bob.news / gmx.net> writes: > module SomeDocumentation > class Named > attr :name > > def initialize(name) > @name = name > end > end > > class Host < Named > INSTANCES = Hash.new {|h,name| h[name] = self.new(name) } > end > > class Role < Named > INSTANCES = Hash.new {|h,name| h[name] = self.new(name) } > end > end > > SomeDocumentation::Host::INSTANCES["foo"] > SomeDocumentation::Role::INSTANCES["foo"] Brilliant, thank you. I think I need to study it for a while, to see exactly what it does in combination with my code, though. :) In addition to this, I also got a message outside the newsgroup telling me to use a @@instances hash in the classes, which seems to be about the same solution. -- Sandbeck Mathisen - http://fnord.no Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend