From: David Pollak <pollak@...>
Date: 2006-04-21T08:24:32+09:00
Subject: Re: how to figure out what class a method is in for a *class method*?

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On 4/20/06, Philip Hallstrom <ruby@philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> Given the following bit of code, I'd like it to spit out "Cat" followed b=
y
> "Dog", but what I get now is "Object" twice.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> class Animal
>      def self.what_am_i
>          self.class
>      end
> end


Try
def self.what_am_i
  self.name
end

Because self is an instance of Class, you want to ask it what its name is.

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