Re[2]: 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 <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

Consider;

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class Dance

def foo

puts "foo is executed"

end

class Boogy < Dance

def bar

puts (foo.class)

end

b = Boogy.new

b.foo # prints "foo is executed" ... expected.

b.bar # prints "foo is executed\nFixnum" ... not expected!

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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

Life is a miracle.

Let's say I am examining the source code and I see "foo". I don't know what it is. Is it a method? Is it a local variable? Is it a proc passed in as something on the parameter list? Is it a binding?