Mongrel handler and root_handler

Hi

I am writing my own handler and seeing some strance behavior. Best is
describing by the following code

say I create mongrel server (see at the end of the email) and have one
handler for the root (so shoudl handle all request…)
To my surprise the @a in the following code in the Handlder is not the
object I expect but a hash containing the name {:a => }

Looking right before the register is called, @a is correct… but
looking inside the handler… suddenly it is all different… I
cannot find any doc or why in the code it is behaving that way,…
I am supposing this something due to how mongrel works but cannot
figure out why

any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Manu

class MyServer
def initialize( ip, port, log ,etc…)
//saving all param in internal attributes

@a = SomeObject.new

end

def start

server = Mongrel::HttpServer.new('localhost',  'port')
server.register("/", MyHandler.new(@a)

end
end

Following is the handler code

class Myhandler < Mongrel::HttpHandler
def initialize(a, b, c)
@a = a
end

def process(request, response)
// some code…

@a = > this is a hash and not the real object passed originally

end
end