From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-04-07T01:56:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13536] Re: List of all instances of a class

Romuald Texier <rtexier@elikya.com> writes:

> Is there a way to get a list of all instances of a class (and its 
> subclasses) without iterating over all objects ?

If this is a class you've written, you could keep a collection in a
class variable and add new instances to it in the initialize
method. You might want to make these wear references though, or your
objects won't be garbage collected.


Dave