From: Ruby Freak <twscannell@...>
Date: 2008-07-24T05:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a simple way to find a method definition?

On Jul 23, 2:40 am, Jens Wille <jens.wi...@uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> Ruby Freak [2008-07-23 06:59]:> I need to find mock_model so I can look at it (just an example)
>
> >   def mock_page(stubs={})
> >     @mock_page ||= mock_model(Page, stubs)
> >   end
>
> > Is there a simple tool/procedure to find  def mock_model ? (or def
> > some_method_name)
>
> well, ctags is certainly a viable option. but i recently wrote a
> little tool [1] that traces added methods and gives you the method
> source right in an interactive irb session. why resort to some
> external tool when we have ruby :-)
>
> add this to your ~/.irbrc:
>
>   require 'rubygems'
>   require 'nuggets/util/added_methods/init'
>
> (for production use, you might want to put some conditional around
> that; otherwise it would be loaded in every session, which at least
> slows things down a bit - not to mention any possible bugs or
> side-effects.)
>
> then in script/console:
>
>   require 'spec/rails'  # if not already done
>   puts AddedMethods[:mock_model]
>
> it's part of the ruby-nuggets gem, available from rubyforge [2] or
> our own gem server [3].
>
> [1]
> <http://prometheus.rubyforge.org/ruby-nuggets/classes/AddedMethods.html>
> [2] <http://rubyforge.org/projects/prometheus/>
> [3] <http://prometheus.khi.uni-koeln.de/rubygems/>
>
> cheers
> jens
>
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That is so helpful, I will try it tonight.
FYI when I went to the [1] url I got a 404 err at:
http://prometheus.rubyforge.org/ruby-nuggets/classes/AddedMethods.html

Thank you in a very large way