From: Dave Aronson Date: 2012-02-22T07:12:15+09:00 Subject: Re: cheered to soon...... enumerable woos On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:52, Catsquotl wrote: > My instance_variables however are mostly string objects with one Array. the > array holds one or more strings Aha! There's your problem. By default, the array is just going to get checked to see if it, itself, equals the string you're looking for. You have to override #search to also look inside the array. -Dave -- Dave Aronson:  Available Cleared Ruby on Rails Freelancer (NoVa/DC/Remote) -- see www.DaveAronson.com, and blogs at www.Codosaur.us, www.Dare2XL.com, www.RecruitingRants.com