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Asked: 2026-05-15T11:13:44+00:00

Ruby definitely stores such information at runtime, as it is printed in stack traces

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Ruby definitely stores such information at runtime, as it is printed in stack traces – but there doesn’t seem to be any obvious way of accessing it. Is there a solution? (other than grepping the sources, or passing nonsense arguments to method in hope of getting the stack trace)

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  1. Editorial Team

    In Ruby 1.9, you have Method#source_location:

    require 'yaml'    
p YAML.method(:load).source_location => ["C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/yaml.rb", 132]

    It appears there’s a request to backport source_location to 1.8 (http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2180), but I’m not sure if/when that will happen.

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