From: wconrad@...
Date: 2002-05-21T09:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: what's the calling method name?

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:07:23PM +0900, Yohanes Santoso wrote:
> wconrad@yagni.com writes:
> 
> > There is an experimental patch at
> > http://yagni.com/stack_frames/index.php that lets you find out the
> > caller's class.  It's against Ruby 1.6.5; let me know if it won't
> > apply to whatever later version of Ruby you're using and I'll fix it
> > up.
> > 
> 
> ... 
> but I experienced some problem when incorporating it into my code:
> jenny:/tmp2/freeride> ruby -v
> ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
> 
> jenny:/tmp2/freeride> ./run.bat
> ./plugins/remacs/documentation.rb:34:in `stack_frames'(DocumentationTestClass): NULL pointer given (ArgumentError)
> 	from ./plugins/remacs/documentation.rb:34:in `insert_via_stack_frame'
> 	from ./plugins/remacs/documentation.rb:131:in `test_insert_with_info_from_stack_frames'
> 	from ./freebase/databus.rb:697
> 
> The corresponding code is:
> 
> 32  def insert_via_stack_frame(doc)
> 33    begin
> 34      caller = stack_frames[1]
> 35      #puts $STDERR, caller.class
> 36      #puts $STDERR, caller.function
> 37      #puts $STDERR, doc
> 38      insert(caller.class, caller.function, doc)
> 39    rescue NameError
> 40      @bus["/log/error"] << "Trying to use the single-argument Documentation::insert without patching ruby"
> 41      @bus["/log/error"] << $!
> 42      puts $STDERR, $!
> 43    end
> 44  end

Yohanes, I am unable to reproduce the problem.  Do you have complete
code you can send me that causes this error?

        Wayne Conrad