Ah -- just recalled -- while running snapshot I get a dummy printout Fixnum my guess it is due 9b558f9bbd7a560d04a07988141162fbac6cc5f9 + puts row['count'].class leftover? -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]