From: Bruce Woodward Date: 2007-01-16T13:01:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Finding the super class of an object? irb(main):013:0> a=10 => 10 irb(main):014:0> a.class.ancestors => [Fixnum, Integer, Precision, Numeric, Comparable, Object, Kernel] irb(main):015:0> a.class.superclass.name => "Integer" irb(main):016:0>