From: J2M <james2mccarthy@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T02:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: metaprogramming surprise?

To achieve what you were trying you may want to look at the class
extensions in rails where there are simple class level accessors and
inheritable_class accessors that give each inherited class it's own
copy of the accessors from the parent class.

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/branches/stable/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/