Any way to determine which object called a method?

Question

I\'m hoping that Ruby\'s message-passing infrastructure means there might be some clever trick for this.

How do I determine the calling object -- which object called

Answer 1

You can easily look at the line of code that called the function of interest through

caller.first

which will tell you the filename and line number which called the relevant function. You could then back-calculate which object it was.

However, it sounds like you're more after some object that called a certain function, perhaps within an instance method. I'm not aware of a method for figuring this out - but I wouldn't use it anyway, since it seems to violate encapsulation badly.