Question

In Ruby, is there a way to determine the name of a method, akin to how the ‘class’ method returns an object’s type?

For example:

def example_method   puts method_name end  #=> 'example_method' 

Answer 1

Try this method, from here:

module Kernel  private   def current_method_name     caller[0] =~ /`([^']*)'/ and $1   end end   class Foo  def test_method    current_method_name   # 'test_method'  end end 

This works in older versions of Ruby (< 1.9). For newer versions, see the other StackOverflow answer here highlighted by Ben.