Question

$0 is the variable for the top level Ruby program, but is there one for the current method?

Answer 1

Even better than my first answer you can use __method__:

class Foo   def test_method     __method__   end end 

This returns a symbol – for example, :test_method. To return the method name as a string, call __method__.to_s instead.

Note: This requires Ruby 1.8.7.