From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2009-11-23T08:24:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Detective - a new ruby gem

On Nov 22, 12:39 pm, Ahmed Eldawy <ahmed.eld...@badrit.com> wrote:
> I've released a new version which supports method_missing like methods.
> Here's an example
> Detective is now also working with method_missing …
>
>   Detective.view_source('ActiveRecord::Base#find_by_id')

The trouble is that find_by_id is a class method of AR::Base, not an
instance method (you should be looking for
ActiveRecord::Base.find_by_id). It seems you have correctly returned
the instance method_missing (ActiveRecord::Base#method_missing), but
it's highly unlikely that this will fulfill a request for find_by_id.

I haven't bothered to look at the Detective source. Since you
mentioned something about finding the lines in the file and then
opening the file itself to get the source code, I suggest you may want
to take a look at ruby2ruby.

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-yossef