From: Kevin Ballard Date: 2005-10-19T05:51:56+09:00 Subject: Re: The Ruby Way to build an object unless nil? Joby Bednar wrote: > class NilClass > def method_missing(method, *args) > nil > end > end > > Forget the ladder... use the elevator! ;) While that certainly works, I would advise not doing that. The problem with this is it will hide problems that might show up elsewhere in your code.