From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-01-26T06:46:26+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I get the arguments passed to the caller.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Stefan Kanev <stefan.kanev@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, suppose I want to get evil and go dig into frames and so on. I've seen
> ruby-debug do something close. Is there a part of the standard library that
> allows you to introspect that way (if so, I could not find it), or a gem
> maybe? And if not and I'm bend on writing C code to achieve it, where should
> I start looking?
Depends, for methods with *args and optional arguments you have
definitely some heavy lifting to do. For all other methods however
it's easy:
   method( caller.first.sub(/.*in ./,"").sub(/.$/,"") ).arity
Probably not good enough?
cheers
Robert