From: John Feminella <johnf@...>
Date: 2011-02-18T23:54:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby reflection - get method definition as a string

I haven't looked at James's gem, but if live_ast can map AST
structures to lines in the source, then it'd be easy to determine
which range of lines in a file is the interesting part. Then you'd
know precisely what section to grab.

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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:30, James M. Lawrence
<quixoticsycophant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Adam Lauper wrote in post #982302:
>> Hi Folks - I am running some ruby tests and would like to print out
>> the actual test to the console or store it to a file.  The tests are
>> written as classes with a setup, run, and teardown method.
>> So here's my question: is there a way to get the class definition or
>> method definitions as a "string", so that I can print it out (to a
>> file or console)?
>> I know ruby supports a lot of reflection (like .methods
>> or .constants), but I'm not seeing how to do this.
>> Thanks!
>
> I just released a gem which gives access to the source code of methods
> and procs (http://github.com/quix/live_ast). See the "to_ruby" section
> of the readme. Since the string returned by to_ruby is a parsed/unparsed
> version of your code, it probably won't match the original source (and
> comments will be gone), but it may suffice for your needs.
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