From: Jp Hastings-spital Date: 2009-09-28T01:04:32+09:00 Subject: Re: More than one initializer Cheers Ehsanul, yeah, they're not tweets - just an easy way to make the situation understood! But thanks for your help! Robert - thanks for the 'allocate' tip, that will probably be the way forward here. However 'id' and 'tweet' are read-only attributes (and I'd like them to remain that way): NoMethodError: undefined method `id=' for # I think I might play with altering the logic inside .new to transparently accept id/text as well, seems like the simplest way forward. Cheers! JP -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.