I would like to know whether I can get source code a method on the fly, and whether I can get which file is this method in.
like
A.new.method(:a).SOURCE_CODE
A.new.method(:a).FILE
I would like to know whether I can get source code a method on the fly, and whether I can get which file is this method in.
like
A.new.method(:a).SOURCE_CODE
A.new.method(:a).FILE
Without dependencies
method = SomeConstant.method(:some_method_name)
file_path, line = method.source_location
# puts 10 lines start from the method define
IO.readlines(file_path)[line-1, 10]
If you want use this more conveniently, your can open the Method class:
# ~/.irbrc
class Method
def source(limit=10)
file, line = source_location
if file && line
IO.readlines(file)[line-1,limit]
else
nil
end
end
end
And then just call method.source
With Pry you can use the show-method to view a method source, and you can even see some ruby c source code with pry-doc installed, according pry's doc in codde-browing
Note that we can also view C methods (from Ruby Core) using the pry-doc plugin; we also show off the alternate syntax for show-method:
pry(main)> show-method Array#select From: array.c in Ruby Core (C Method): Number of lines: 15 static VALUE rb_ary_select(VALUE ary) { VALUE result; long i; RETURN_ENUMERATOR(ary, 0, 0); result = rb_ary_new2(RARRAY_LEN(ary)); for (i = 0; i < RARRAY_LEN(ary); i++) { if (RTEST(rb_yield(RARRAY_PTR(ary)[i]))) { rb_ary_push(result, rb_ary_elt(ary, i)); } } return result; }