From: Viaduct Productions Date: 2011-10-06T05:21:20+09:00 Subject: Re: How to output an instance's type Hi Kassym. Thanks for the post. puts alpha.inspect I have found doesn't do anything more than this: puts alpha Would that change with more complex compound data types? Cheers _____________ Rich in Toronto On 2011-10-05, at 3:45 PM, Kassym Dorsel wrote: > You might also want to look at these two for more information on a > variable : > > puts alpha.methods > > puts alpha.inspect