From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-14T05:56:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically determining a class' namespace

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Ruby 1.8.x
>
> Is there a way to determine a classes namespace from within an
> instance method?
>
> class Foo
>   def initialize
>      # print namespace
>   end
> end
>
> Foo.new # 'Object'? 'Kernel'? nil?
>
> module Bar
>   Foo.new # 'Bar'
> end
>
> module Baz
>   module Bar
>      Foo.new # 'Baz::Bar'
>   end
> end
>
> If not, is it possible at the class level?  I looked at Module#nesting
> and Module#name, but I couldn't see how to use those to get what I
> want.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/964c11aefa515b29/c1fb423d3dcda20e?lnk=gst&q=a.rb+nesting&rnum=2&hl=en#c1fb423d3dcda20e

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