From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-08T13:01:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27893] Re: Method creation question

At Sat, 8 Dec 2001 06:42:57 +0900,
Paul Brannan <paul@atdesk.com> wrote:
> The reason you must use an eval is that there currently is no way to get
> the name of the current function.

Really?  Can you define a method body in runtime without
eval/class_eval/module_eval?


> It should be possible to get this
> using an extension; I think it's stored in ruby_frame->last_func? 

Yes, or rb_frame_last_func().  But it cannot be provided as
a method, it would just return its own ID.

Or in pure ruby, try *caller(0)[0].scan(/\`(\S+)\'\z/)[0]

  def caller_name(level = 0)
    m = /\`(\S+)\'\z/.match(caller(level + 1)[0]) and m[0]
  end


Nobu Nakada