Reflection to get method name from within method?

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Friends-

  Is there anyway to use reflection or someother technique to get the name of a method from within the method when it is running?

So if I had this:

def foo
   #some magick incantation here that returns the name of the method "foo"
end

Thanks-
-Ezra

2

You could use something like this:

def method_called
  caller[0].match(/`([^']+)/).captures[0]
end

def test_me
  p method_called
end

test_me
#=> "test_me"

I don't know of any other way (unless perhaps you can get this info
via ParseTree or evil.rb).

Regards,
Sean

···

On 7/10/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:

Friends-

        Is there anyway to use reflection or someother technique to get the
name of a method from within the method when it is running?

So if I had this:

def foo
   #some magick incantation here that returns the name of the method
"foo"
end

Thanks-
-Ezra

3

Ok thanks Sean, that will work for what I need to do.

Cheers-
-Ezra

···

On Jul 10, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Sean O'Halpin wrote:

On 7/10/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:

Friends-

        Is there anyway to use reflection or someother technique to get the
name of a method from within the method when it is running?

So if I had this:

def foo
   #some magick incantation here that returns the name of the method
"foo"
end

Thanks-
-Ezra

You could use something like this:

def method_called
caller[0].match(/`([^']+)/).captures[0]
end

def test_me
p method_called
end

test_me
#=> "test_me"

I don't know of any other way (unless perhaps you can get this info
via ParseTree or evil.rb).

Regards,
Sean