From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-06-25T04:55:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Inspecting a caller environment?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:31:09PM +0900, Luigi Ballabio wrote:
> Foo> foo = 'life'
> Foo> bar = 'the universe'
> Foo> baz = 'everything'
> Foo> calculate
>      ==> 42
> Foo>

This should produce exactly the result you are looking for:

  require 'readline'

  def create_binding
    return binding
  end

  $b = create_binding

  def calculate
    foo = eval 'foo', $b
    bar = eval 'bar', $b
    baz = eval 'baz', $b
    if foo == 'life' and bar == 'the universe' and baz == 'everything'
      puts "      ==> 42"
    end
  end

  while line = Readline.readline('Foo> ') do
    eval line, $b
  end

You may need to modify the code slightly if you do not have Readline
available on your platform.

See also [ruby-talk:22963].

Paul