From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T01:59:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the 'Sender' or 'Caller' object of a method


On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:19 AM, Peter Laurens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not having much luck in finding out how to get the calling object
> of a method.
>
> Is there an implicit way that a method can get a pointer to the object
> that called it, or do I have to write that explicitly, manually
> including a 'sender' parameter for the method call myself?
>
> I have looked at 'caller' but can only coax a string out of it.
>
> Thanks in advance for your kind help!
>
> - Nex
> --  
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>

in many contexts this will work:

require 'binding_of_caller'

def method
   caller = Binding_of_caller{|binding| eval 'self', binding}
end

notably NOT class methods though...

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