From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-09-22T00:22:15+09:00
Subject: Re: dynamically read object's attributes

On 9/21/07, Mark Pelletier <mark.pelletier@asrcms.com> wrote:
> I want to read the values of instance variables in an object, but I
> don't know how to reach them.  I think the code should be something
> like:
>
> def read_stuff
>         s = "Class: #{self.class}:\n"
>         s += "Instance variables:\n"
>         self.instance_variables.each do
>                 |var|
>                 s += "#{var}: #{SOMETHING}\n"
>         end
>         s += "\n"
> end
>
> But I don't know what to replace SOMETHING with.  Anyone know?

instance_variable_get(var)

You might want to read rdoc for Object and Module for more similar
interesting methods.