From: Philip Hallstrom <ruby@...>
Date: 2006-04-21T08:13:38+09:00
Subject: how to figure out what class a method is in for a *class method*?

Hi all -

Given the following bit of code, I'd like it to spit out "Cat" followed by 
"Dog", but what I get now is "Object" twice.

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class Animal
     def self.what_am_i
         self.class
     end
end

class Cat < Animal
end

class Dog < Animal
end

puts Cat.what_am_i
puts Dog.what_am_i
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The closest I can get is self.object_id which prints out different ID's, 
but I'd really like the name if I can get it...

Thanks!

-philip