# Accessing Instance Variables from file

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-instance-variables-from-file/97933>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 11, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-instance-variables-from-file/97933 "2006-07-11T15:53:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![djmook](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@djmook](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/djmook)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-instance-variables-from-file/97933/1 "2006-07-11T15:53:15Z")

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How do I access all of the instance variables from a ruby file that has  
classes in if I do know the class names, but I can store the class names  
as class-type objects? Object.instance\_variables only applies to various  
methods (i tried on irb) and I cannot store method names as methods  
types because that is not an object type. I was wondering if there was a  
library to perform this function or should I just write my own to add to  
the module class?

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**Author:** ![djmook](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@djmook](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/djmook)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-instance-variables-from-file/97933/2 "2006-07-13T01:47:38Z")

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On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Mark cheng wrote:

> add to  
> the module class?
> 
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Huh? What do you want exactly?