From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-06-21T07:31:28+09:00
Subject: Re: the name of an class?

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 07:19 +0900, Karl-Heinz Wild wrote:
> maybe a dummy question. sorry.
> 
> class Base
> 	def theName
> 		# the name i would like return should be "Question" mean the name of 
> the class
> 		# calling this function
> 	end
> end
> 
> class Question < Base
> 	def get( name )
> 		File.open( theName, 'r' ).each { | line |
> 			puts line
> 		}
> 	end
> end
> 
> how can i get the name "Question" in a String. I need this as an 
> identifier.

I think that what you want is self.class.name --

class Base
   def theName
      self.class.name
   end
end