Re: Getting the class of an object.

Are you talking about sth. like this:

b.method(:foo).owner #=> Dance
b.method(:bar).owner #=> Boogy

?

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Consider;
>
> - - -
>
> class Dance
>    def foo
>        puts "foo is executed"
>        42
>    end
> end
>
> class Boogy < Dance
>    def bar
>        puts (foo.class)
>    end
> end
>
> b = Boogy.new
>
> b.foo # prints "foo is executed" ... expected.
>
> b.bar # prints "foo is executed\nFixnum" ... not expected!
>
> - - -
>
> Let's focus on the line
>  puts (foo.class)
>
> So let's say I'm in the middle of a debugging session trying to debug the
> bar method.
>
> I see this thing called "foo" and I want to know what it is.
>
> So I
>  puts (foo.class)
>
> Since everything in ruby is an object and all objects have classes, I'm
> expecting to print out the class of this thing called foo.
>
> What happens, though is that foo gets executed (which is not what I want)
> and returns 42 ... whose class is Fixnum.
>
>
> Questions:
> How can I tell what class of object foo is without executing it?
> Is there a class called "Method" in the Ruby class hierarchy?
> What class of object does define_method return?
>
>
> Ralph Shnelvar
>
>
>


-- 
Best wishes,
Jie Fan


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