From: Thomas Sondergaard Date: 2002-03-18T04:24:34+09:00 Subject: Re: instance_respond_to? > For now I will add it myself. Shouldn't the following do fine? > > class Module > def instance_respond_to? aSymbol > return public_instance_methods.include?(aSymbol.to_s) > end > end (I removed Module. above in return public_instance_blahblah) I'll answer my own question: Nope, it wont because public_instance_methods only returns the methods defined in the class/module itself not in its superclasses. Is there a way to do this? Thomas