From: Dan Date: 2007-08-07T23:10:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Better way to do this? Currently using two method_missing calls... > Can you explain why you are reluctant to create an instance for this? > Generally, creating and manipulating objects is all OO is about. :-) > More specifically, since your remote call is likely an order of > magnitude slower than the instance creation performance effects are > negligible. Fair point :). Actually, I'm less concerned about performance then code clarity. Since I'm just posting to a url, I only want to convert the object-like notation to a string. Creating a bunch of objects just to facilitate that notation seems like extra confusion. Dan