From: Greg Hauptmann Date: 2008-06-15T19:37:08+09:00 Subject: Re: why can't an instance instantiated within a class method access a protected instance method? ------=_Part_50365_20585621.1213526277392 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline (complete email)Hi, Why can't an instance instantiated within a class method access a protected instance method? e.g. class Recurring < ActiveRecord::Base def self.reconcile rs = Recurring.find(:all) rs.each do |r| r.reconcile_one end end protected def reconcile_one # do something end end ------=_Part_50365_20585621.1213526277392--