From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-02-14T06:51:39+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, Tim Pease wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
>    harp:~ > cat a.rb
>    require 'binding_of_caller'
>

Okay, Ara is there any problem that you have not already solved ;)

TwP