How to get calling method's name in Ruby?

Question

I want to create a parent class (or module) with methods that does something with the method name of child classes where the parent method is called. Example:

class Foo
  def foo
    puts __method__
  end
end

class Bar < Foo
  def bar
    foo
  end
end

When Bar.new.bar is called,it prints :foo , but I want to make it print bar . How should Foo#foo method be to satisfy that behavior?

Answer 1

Try caller :

class Foo
  def foo
    puts caller[0][/`.*'/][1..-2]
  end
end

class Bar < Foo
  def bar
    foo
  end
end

Bar.new.bar #=> bar