From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" Date: 2010-05-20T00:41:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Retrieve instance On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Walle Wallen wrote: > Ah, I see. > Thank you for the enlightenment You can also explicitly pass the container object into the contained: class Contained attr_reader :container def initialize container @container = container end end class Test attr_reader :con def initialize @con = Contained.new self end end contained = Test.new.con p contained.container Jesus.