Issue #5628 has been updated by trans (Thomas Sawyer). You are right about name, it would have to be something else besides #basename. Yehuda Katz said he would probably be ok with `mod.modules.last.name`, to which I commented, we may as well add `mod.lastname`. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5628: Module#basename https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5628#change-25552 Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer) Status: Feedback Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: Target version: 2.0.0 Something I use fairly often: some_module.name.split("::").last It's useful for things like factory methods. It would be much nicer if we had: class Module def basename name.split("::").last end end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/