[ruby-core:56799] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8817][Open] Method#owner on prepended classes is an instance rather than Class/Method

Issue #8817 has been reported by soulcutter (Bradley Schaefer).

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Bug #8817: Method#owner on prepended classes is an instance rather than Class/Method 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8817

Author: soulcutter (Bradley Schaefer)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-darwin12.4.0]
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


rdoc indicates that Method#owner will return a class or module that defines a method. http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Method.html#method-i-owner

For classes that have prepended modules, the owner is actually an instance.

Example code:

module Mod; end

class Foo
  prepend Mod
  def foo; 'foo'; end
end

owner = Foo.instance_method(:foo).owner
puts "Method#owner on a prepended class instance_method: #{owner.inspect}" #=> #<Foo:0x007fd34dfd3ea0>
puts "Class?: #{owner.is_a? Class}" #=> false
puts "Module?: #{owner.is_a? Module}" #=> false


This had the effect of breaking stubbing in rspec (https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/pull/385) , though a workaround is that the expected Class/Module can be retrieved by asking for the returned object's class. 


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