From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T06:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Reflection to get method name from within method?

On 7/10/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends-
>
>         Is there anyway to use reflection or someother technique to get the
> name of a method from within the method when it is running?
>
> So if I had this:
>
> def foo
>    #some magick incantation here that returns the name of the method
> "foo"
> end
>
>
> Thanks-
> -Ezra
>
You could use something like this:

def method_called
  caller[0].match(/`([^']+)/).captures[0]
end

def test_me
  p method_called
end

test_me
#=> "test_me"

I don't know of any other way (unless perhaps you can get this info
via ParseTree or evil.rb).

Regards,
Sean