From: Thomas Sondergaard <tsondergaard@...>
Date: 2002-03-18T04:27:25+09:00
Subject: Re: instance_respond_to?

Eek, ignore my last post. All I had to do was call

public_instance_methods(true) instead of just public_instance_methods()
to get the methods defined in superclasses.

I'll stop the spamming right away :-)

Thomas

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 20:24, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> > For now I will add it myself. Shouldn't the following do fine?
> > 
> > class Module
> >   def instance_respond_to? aSymbol
> >     return public_instance_methods.include?(aSymbol.to_s)
> >   end
> > end
> 
> (I removed Module. above in return public_instance_blahblah)
> 
> I'll answer my own question: Nope, it wont because
> public_instance_methods only returns the methods defined in the
> class/module itself not in its superclasses.
> 
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Thomas