From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T17:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: using the current method name within current method

Matt Todd wrote:
> If you wanted to modularize it just for the sake of it, you could do
> something similar to the following:
> 
> module CurrentMethodName
>  def this_method
>    caller[0]=~/`(.*?)'/
>    $1
>  end
> end

You can rewrite that as

def this_method
   caller[0][/`([^']*)'/, 1]
end

and thusly avoid the global variable.

Kind regards

	robert