From: Navindra Umanee Date: 2005-08-13T06:55:49+09:00 Subject: Re: eval, attr_* like methods Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Yes, it helps! But there are two more questions left: since this > lookup_meth is defined in Ojbect, it might get overridden by another > method definition of the same name, right? Is it possible to move this > definition somewhere 'closer' to my classes? And number two: I have You can move it as close as to the class itself. It's just a class method. Or you could put it in a super-class and inherit from that. class Test def self.do_something(*args) puts "doing something with #{args}" end end class Test do_something :foobar end Cheers, Navin.