From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-08-11T02:26:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible to get source for arbitrary class?

In article <CIELJOOMCFBDNHLICOEFKEJACEAA.james@jamesbritt.com>,
JamesBritt <james@jamesbritt.com> wrote:
>Is there a way to get a string version (i.e., a "source code"
>representation ) of an existing object, such that it could be written to
>disk and 'require'ed  later, or passed to another process (using perhaps
>dRb)?
>
>

In TaskMaster I did this by reading a file to be required, stringifying it 
and then sending the string to the remote machine and having it required 
over there - You might try something similar.  I wanted to do what you're 
proposing in your question, but when I asked a similar question some 
months ago the answer seemed to be that this was a feature coming in Ruby 
2.0.  It would be cool to have something like:

sourceString = ClassName.source_code()

Phil