Rails - Apr 2009 - Writing a plugin: Need to get including class's name. Help?

Hello.

For reference, here is some sample code that exemplifies what I am
trying to do:
http://gist.github.com/102816

I am trying to dynamically defined a class, whose name is either passed
in as a parameter or based on the including class name.

So if I had something like this:
class Green; acts_as_duck; end

I would expect the generated class to be called "GreenDuck", and to be
defined within the "Green" class.

The problem is that no matter what I do, the dynamically referenced
class name is always just "Class".

Any suggestions here?

Thanks.
Chris
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Chris Johnson wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> For reference, here is some sample code that exemplifies what I am
> trying to do:
> http://gist.github.com/102816
> 
> I am trying to dynamically defined a class, whose name is either passed
> in as a parameter or based on the including class name.
> 
> So if I had something like this:
> class Green; acts_as_duck; end
> 
> I would expect the generated class to be called "GreenDuck", and
to be
> defined within the "Green" class.
> 
> The problem is that no matter what I do, the dynamically referenced
> class name is always just "Class".
> 
> Any suggestions here?
> 
> Thanks.
> Chris
For the record, I got around this by doing some dynamic eval in the 
module eval:

http://gist.github.com/102836

Maybe there was a simpler way(?)

-Chris
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On Apr 28, 12:23 am, Chris Johnson
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello.
>
> For reference, here is some sample code that exemplifies what I am
> trying to do:http://gist.github.com/102816
>
> I am trying to dynamically defined a class, whose name is either passed
> in as a parameter or based on the including class name.
>
> So if I had something like this:
> class Green; acts_as_duck; end
>
> I would expect the generated class to be called "GreenDuck", and
to be
> defined within the "Green" class.
>
> The problem is that no matter what I do, the dynamically referenced
> class name is always just "Class".
>
Because what you have is a class method, self is the class that
acts_as_duck is being called on, ie self == Green, and so self.name
will be ''Green''. self.class is asking ruby what the class of
Green is,
and since classes are of class Class you end up with the result you
had.

Fred
> Any suggestions here?
>
> Thanks.
> Chris
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Frederick Cheung wrote:
> On Apr 28, 12:23�am, Chris Johnson <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> I would expect the generated class to be called "GreenDuck",
and to be
>> defined within the "Green" class.
>>
>> The problem is that no matter what I do, the dynamically referenced
>> class name is always just "Class".
>>
> 
> Because what you have is a class method, self is the class that
> acts_as_duck is being called on, ie self == Green, and so self.name
> will be ''Green''. self.class is asking ruby what the class
of Green is,
> and since classes are of class Class you end up with the result you
> had.
> 
> Fred
Ahh.  Understood.  Thanks for clarifying Fred.

-Chris
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