From: Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T21:35:17+09:00
Subject: Introspection question

Hello,

Let us say we have a hash:

a = Hash.new

Can I do something of this sort:

class Hash
def who_am_i?
   "#{self.symbol}"
end
end

Where self.symbol gives me "a"?

I basically want the variable name. I looked a bit and saw that you
could intern a symbol from a string, but is there an easy way to get
the name of a variable from within the object itself? I am writing a
to_xml method for hashes and it would be immensely helpful if I can
use the name of the variable as the root element.

Thank you,

Jayanth