Ruby Language Introspection in Ruby Introspection of class
Example
Lets following are the class definition
class A def a; end end module B def b; end end class C < A include B def c; end end
What are the instance methods of C?
C.instance_methods # [:c, :b, :a, :to_json, :instance_of?...]
What are the instance methods that declare only on C?
C.instance_methods(false) # [:c]
What are the ancestors of class C?
C.ancestors # [C, B, A, Object,...]
Superclass of C?
C.superclass # A
