From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-03-30T17:18:43+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing the currently running method

Kev Jackson wrote:
> is caller the best way to access the name of the current method?
> 
> ie if I have a method called x, is there any other way to determine at 
> runtime the exact method that is executing?  caller would return an 
> array (limited by the int param) of the call stack, but I'd still have 
> to search across the array (with a regexp) to extract the method name
> 
> with caller I can do something like...
> 
> ms = ["prog:1:in `x'"]
> 
> ms.each { |m| /x/=~m do_stuff }
> 
> Is there no other way?  no Kernel.running_method, no Kernel.executing?
> Are there any libraries that would give me this level of inspection 
> without extending Kernel?  (I'm thinking of evil.rb here)

There is binding_of_caller which might or might not help you - depending 
on what you want to do.

Another option is to use set_trace_func to set up something that keeps 
track of method invocations.

> No biggy, just interested if anyone else has ever wanted/needed to get 
> this info in a running program, and what they did to do it

Certainly, from time to time.  What do *you* need it for?

Kind regards

	robert