From: Karl-Heinz Wild Date: 2004-06-21T07:19:29+09:00 Subject: the name of an class? maybe a dummy question. sorry. class Base def theName # the name i would like return should be "Question" mean the name of the class # calling this function end end class Question < Base def get( name ) File.open( theName, 'r' ).each { | line | puts line } end end how can i get the name "Question" in a String. I need this as an identifier. thanks Karl-Heinz