From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T00:23:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Has a method been called?

On 9/7/06, aidy <aidy.rutter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to find out if a method has been called except by adding
> a flag to it?
>
> class Whatever
>   @flag = 0
>
>   def method_called
>     @flag += 1
>   end
>
>   def has_method_been_called
>     false
>     return true if @flag > 0
>   end
>
> end
>
> Cheers
>
> Aidy

If it's enough for you to know that off-line, you can use rcov or
ruby-prof for that. Run rcov and see whether it's code was visited. If
you need to know in the runtime, that's another story ;-)