From: "ako..." Date: 2006-01-05T05:22:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Repost: singleton methods vs. class instance vars hello, apparently ruby as most other languages has more than one way to express the same thing. i myself see no advantage of the code in active record that you posted and your code. except for the active record code is faster than yours because it does not check any variables at all when evaluating the table_name method. konstantin