On 27 άο, 07:51, Ilias Lazaridis <il... / lazaridis.com> wrote:
> On 26 ¦¬¦Ï, 13:31, Roger Braun <ro... / rogerbraun.net> wrote:
>
> > 2011/5/26 Ilias Lazaridis <il... / lazaridis.com>:
>
> > > What I'm looking for:
>
> > > how can I detect WHERE the object was instantiated?
>
> > This seems to do what you need.
>
> >http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2787
>
> > See also here:
>
> >http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001397
>
> This one could lead to a solution, at least a temporal one.
>
> I can retrieve from the Kernel.caller the call stack, and from there
> the information <main>.
>
> How can I user the string "<main>" or "<class:MyClass>" to retrieve
> the actual object of main or MyClass?

for "class:MyClass'

obj = Kernel.const_get("MyClass") #=> returns object which represents
MyClass

for "main"?

How can I retrieve the "main" object?

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