From: roob noob Date: 2012-05-17T07:07:27+09:00 Subject: Re: what is going wrong here? The case of the noob not understanding initialize I used an instance variable for @ciphertext because I was getting it with @crypt.instance_variable_get("@ciphertext") but then I realized I can do it in a much nicer way. Yes I can confirm that the way I originally said does not work doesn't work, I am using ruby ruby 1.9.3p125 on Ubuntu 64 bit the first way outputs this whatever �a�xtT�� �a�xtT�� �G��E the other two ways both output this whatever �a�xtT�� �a�xtT�� whatever -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.