From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" Date: 2004-06-09T08:00:46+09:00 Subject: Re: accessing class instance variable from instance method >> But you're trying to access a (private) variable on a completely >> different, and only vaguely related, object. Why should you have a >> "nice" way? > Then perhaps Ruby should not provide a "nice" way to access @@var too :-) Ruby's all about niceness :-) (Sorry for the preaching tone earlier). I really liked Ara's solution with (semi-constant) class variables. Why is @@var failing you, and you have to use class@var instead?