Access variables programmatically by name in Ruby

Question

I\'m not entirely sure if this is possible in Ruby, but hopefully there\'s an easy way to do this. I want to declare a variable and later find out the name of the variable.

Answer 1

OK, it DOES work in instance methods, too, and, based on your specific requirement (the one you put in the comment), you could do this:

local_variables.each do |var|
  puts var if (eval(var).class != Fixnum)
end

Just replace Fixnum with your specific type checking.