Question

I have a class that inherits from Hash. When this class itself gets inherited from, I want to know the class name of the inheriting class from within the initialize method. When I call self I get {}, which doesn’t know of the name method.

class Foo < Hash
  def initialize
    # Here i want to know that the class is Foo
  end
end

How do I get the class name?

Answer 1

It’s very simple: self.class.name