From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-05-18T00:37:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Method name

Mark Volkmann wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Michael <Michael_ee@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking around, but I didn't find a replacement for c++
>> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ or __FUNC__ macro.
>>
>> How can I find out a method's name at runtime?
> 
> I assume you mean the name of the current method.  Here's one way.
> 
> name = caller(0).first.split.last
> 
> This gives it to you with single quotes around it which you may want
> to strip off.

Does this work?

  def __FUNCTION__
    caller(1).first[/ `(.*)'\Z/, 1]
  end

Cheers,
Dave