From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T17:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Find the fully qualified name of a class from a string

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 05:54:42AM +0900, Nasir Khan wrote:
> Say you have a class definition in a string -
> 
> str = <<EOF
> module A
>   class B
>     def b
>       puts "hello"
>     end
>  end
> end
> EOF
> 
> What is the easiest way to find out the fully qualified name of the class
> there, namely "A::B"

Interesting. I thought that in general you couldn't:

m = Module.new
Foo = m
Bar = m
module m
  # what's the *name* of the module we are in now??
end

But actually Ruby rejects that, so you must say 'module Foo' or 'module Bar'