From: Nicholas Wieland <nicholas_wieland@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T15:56:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining what file contains a module/class

 - Austin Ziegler :
> 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.
 
Well, I've used digest just to make an example, my question was more
general :=)
Actually I'm using something like:

SCRIPT_LINES__ = {}
require 'net/ftp'
SCRIPT_LINES__.keys

that solves two problems in one.

TIA,
  ngw

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