From: aartist Date: 2005-05-26T10:10:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Zerofy Markus, , you are right on the point. month = 5 month.zerofy! puts month.class =>String puts month => 05 Is it not possible? I am newbie in Ruby, but I am interested in that heavy juju, you mentioned. ri Fixnum : gives me two important thing. A. Fixnum objects have immediate value B. You cannot add a singleton method. I would like to know, if you can add destructive method to Fixnum objects.. By the way, This is nice group, and I really like the cooperation. Thanks for keeping up guys.