From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-05-30T05:10:44+09:00
Subject: Re: CORE - Object Instantiation and Location

On 27 Μάϊος, 17:54, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> [...]

> > And, really, a frequently requested feature by Ruby users (which I
> > think was implemented in at least one Gem for pre-1.9 ruby, don't know
> > if there is anything that provides it for 1.9) has been something to
> > the effect of Binding.of_caller that would return the binding of the
> > point from which the current method was called; if such a method
> > existed, Ilias request would seem to just be solved by:
>
> > Binding.of_caller.eval { self }
>
> Or, more likely:
>
>  Binding.of_caller.eval "self"


http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Binding.html
http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/

Yes, this should work, but it seems to have some problems, too:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/175402

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There is another solution, which I like more:

https://github.com/Asher-/sender

found within the answer to this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2016696/getting-module-of-caller-in-ruby

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But I try to achieve it without C-level extensions, only with the
build in (1.9) object-model / reflection / *documented* call-stack
tracing etc.

The question is:

How to achieve this in a "clean" way, without going to C-level?

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