From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T22:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Get the caller of a class

2008/8/1 Mario Ruiz <mario@betware.com>:

There is no such thing as the "caller of a class": a class can be used
by many clients and only methods are actually "called".  "caller" is
actually already defined.  See whether this helps:

15:19:02 bas$ irb
Ruby version 1.8.7
irb(main):001:0> def a(n) b(n) end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> def b(n) caller(n) end
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> 3.times {|i| puts i, a(i), "----"}
0
(irb):2:in `b'
(irb):1:in `a'
(irb):4:in `irb_binding'
(irb):4:in `times'
(irb):4:in `irb_binding'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52
----
1
(irb):1:in `a'
(irb):4:in `irb_binding'
(irb):4:in `times'
(irb):4:in `irb_binding'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52
----
2
(irb):4:in `irb_binding'
(irb):4:in `times'
(irb):4:in `irb_binding'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52
----
=> 3


Kind regards

robert


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