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Message: [QUOTE="David A. Black, post: 4609711"] Hi -- Do you mean self.name, in both cases? I assume that you've done: class A < S end A.doSomething # or do_something, using Ruby style naming and that you didn't really get magically-inserted spaces :-) The code inside a class definition gets executed when the class definition is read in. Code at the top level of the definition, like your puts statement, gets executed right away. Method definitions get executed in the sense that the methods get defined, but the methods themselves don't get executed until they're called. So your definition of S does two things: * prints out "1" + self.name * defines a method, to be called later If you want to do the puts'ing for a subclass, you could do: class S def self.inherited(c) c.class_eval { puts "1" + self.name } end end (or just puts "1" + c.name) David [/QUOTE]