Discovering Ruby object members?

ruby discoverability
dance2die picture dance2die · Jan 20, 2011 · Viewed 47.5k times · Source

What is an easy way to find out what methods/properties that a ruby object exposes?

As an example to get member information for a string, in PowerShell, you can do

"" | get-member

In Python,

dir("")

Is there such an easy way to discover member information of a Ruby object?

Answer

noodl picture noodl · Jan 20, 2011 
"foo".methods

See:

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Class.html

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Module.html

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