From: Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@...>
Date: 2008-09-27T00:09:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a way to find the class methods of a class, just like 'methods' finds the instance methods?

Thanks everyone. It appears, then, that Ncurses.init_pair is not  
defined in the ncurses module,
regardless of what the ruby cookbook says. Sigh.

Ken
On Sep 26, 2008, at 2:58 AM, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:

> Kenneth McDonald wrote:
>> Is there a way to find the class methods of a class, just like  
>> 'methods'
>> finds the instance methods?
>
> methods does not give you the instance methods of a class.  
> instance_methods
> does. obj.methods (where obj might very well be a class) gives you  
> all the
> methods defined on obj, i.e. the instance methods of obj's class  
> (minus the
> ones you undefined for obj specifically, I suppose) + the singleton  
> methods
> that are defined on obj directly. If you specify the argument false,  
> only the
> singleton methods are listed.
> So SomeClass.methods will list all the instance methods of class  
> Class + all
> the singleton (a.k.a. class-)methods of SomeClass and  
> SomeClass.methods(false)
> will give you only the latter.
>
> HTH,
> Sebastian
> -- 
> Jabber: sepp2k@jabber.org
> ICQ: 205544826
>