From: "Thomas B." Date: 2008-08-29T04:27:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Access to method in superclass Hello. It's a gotcha in Ruby - there's NO WAY to access ancestor's method setSpeed from your own method accelerate. As you see, the word super itself is a call to ancestor's method of the same name as the method you are currently in. And there's no other use of super, so you cannot call ancestor's (overridden) method of a different name than the method you're actually in. AFAIK they say that you shouldn't need to. If you do, you can refactor your code and it will be a good thing to do. TPR. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.