From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T22:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: function like "function_exits"

On Dec 7, 7:31 am, Girard Fred <fred.gir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jordan Callicoat wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 5:33 am, Alex Young <a...@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> >> >> A method and a function are the same thing. Also, check this out.
>
> >> Alex
> > Toplevel methods are implicitly added as private methods of class
> > Object, so...
>
> > p self.private_methods.include?("foo") # => true
>
> > Regards,
> > Jordan
>
> It's true, i try this differents ways :
> in irb:>> def foo
> >> puts 'test'
> >> end
> => nil
> >> methods.include? "foo
>
> => true
> --------------------
> in test file:
> def foo()
>   puts 'test'
> end
>
> puts methods.include?('foo')
>
> => false
> ---------------------
> So, now with your private_methods
>
> def foo()
>   puts 'test'
> end
>
> puts private_methods.include?('foo')
>
> => true
>
> Good job :)
> --
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But you don't really want that... ;)

You want respond_to? which Just Works everywhere. And really, you
probably don't even want to be asking if a method is defined (depends
on your code), but usually there are better ways of doing things (like
unit testing).

HTH,
Jordan