From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-22T03:08:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Detective - a new ruby gem

Ahmed Eldawy wrote:
> Emmm ...
> Actually that's how it should work. It's not a bug.
> What the gem actually does is opening the files where you have defined a 
> method and extract the lines of method definition.
> When you define a method in irb it's not saved in any files. This means 
> we have now way to extract its code.
> The same problem occurs when you define a method using eval method. The 
> method is defined in a string variable (memory) not in a file.
> Provided that the above cases rarely happen in a real application, we 
> can say that this is not a problem with Detective.

I like the idea behind Detective, but if it can't cope with dynamically 
defined methods, then it won't be terribly useful in practice. 
method_missing trickery and dynamic metaprogramming are fairly common in 
Ruby.

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