From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T17:19:40+09:00
Subject: Re: current method


On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 08:07 AM, Volkmann, Mark wrote:

> Is there a way to programmatically determine the name of the method 
> that is currently being executed? I'd like to use this for logging 
> purposes.

Here is what I had to do for RubyInline (1):

	def caller_method_name()
	  /\`([^\']+)\'/.match(caller(2).first)[1]
	end

Note, this is two levels up, you want one level up. Perhaps:

	def my_method_name()
	  /\`([^\']+)\'/.match(caller(1).first)[1]
	end

is an appropriate name.

1) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyinline/