From: vinbarnes Date: 2007-09-24T23:53:16+09:00 Subject: Re: best way to 'hide' a method when method_missing is in town On Sep 24, 9:33 am, Paul Brannan wrote: > There probably is a better solution to your problem, but it depends on > *why* you desire this behavior. I'm trying to hide attributes in a Rails model. ActiveRecord::Base has method_missing defined to build getter/setter methods for attributes on the fly. But the problem is more general in nature as I described. Kevin