From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-03-31T18:34:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13382] Re: Is there any way to get the current ruby method within in C?


On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Matthew D. Spencer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm rather new to Ruby (*very* new actually), and I'm playing around
> with extending it in C. I would like to use the same C function to
> handle multiple methods for a given class, but to perform slightly
> different (potentially a lot different) behavior based on what method
> was called.
> 
> My question is this: is there some way of knowing the method (by name
> or unique id) when inside the C code?
> 
> For example:
> 
> VALUE methodHandler(VALUE self, VALUE arg1) {
> 
>     ID id = rb_current_method_id(...)?
> 
>     ...
> }

Yup:

 VALUE methodHandler(VALUE self, VALUE arg1) {
   
     ID id = rb_frame_last_func();
 
     ...
 }

Cheers.
Avi