Hello all, If I may suggest adding to the documentation for the marc gem (http://marc.rubyforge.org/)... Currently, the documentation gives examples for how to read, create and write MARC records. The source code also includes an "encode" method in MARC::Writer, which came in handy for me when I needed to send an encoded record off to be archived on the fly, without writing it to the filesystem. That method isn't in the documentation, but it would be nice to see there! It could be as simple as: # encoding a record MARC::Writer.encode(record) Thanks for your consideration! Tony