From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-05-23T23:39:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining what file contains a module/class

On 5/21/05, Nicholas Wieland <nicholas_wieland@yahoo.it> wrote:
> Hi *,
> I need to find the file that contains a known module or class, to
> "inspect" the source code and extract what I need from the file.
> Something like:
> 
> >> require 'digest'
> >> Digest::base_file
> '/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/digest.rb'

The problem in this case is that digest is specifically in digest.so,
not digest.rb. It also doesn't help if a module or class is defined
across multiple files, which is certainly permitted in Ruby.

-austin
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