From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-02-14T06:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically determining a class' namespace

On 2/13/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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
>

Not quite what Mr. Berger is after here.

He wants to know the nesting where the Foo object was created not the
nesting of the Foo class itself.  i.e. whenever Foo.new is called,
what is the namespace where it was called.

Frankly, I'm stumped.

TwP