method_info

Defines a method_info method on every Object which will show the methods that each of the object’s ancestors has defined on it. The default settings are chosen to cause the least amount of surprise. This means the output may be a bit verbose, but there are options that can to narrow down the output to what you are interested in. The following options are provided:

:format (default: nil)
- :string returns a string representation
- :array returns an array representation
- anything else prints out a string representation
:ancestors_to_show (default: []) (Overrules the hiding of any ancestors as specified
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by the :ancestors_to_exclude option)
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:ancestors_to_exclude (default: []) (If a class is excluded, all modules included

under it are excluded as well, an ancestor specified in :ancestors_to_show will be
shown regardless of the this value)

:method_missing (default: false)
:public_methods (default: true)
:protected_methods (default: false)
:private_methods (default: false)
:singleton_methods (default: true)
:include_names_of_excluded_ancestors (default: true)
:include_names_of_methodless_ancestors (default: true)
:enable_colors (default: false)
:class_color Set colour for a line printing out a class (only used when :enable_colors is true)
:module_color Set colour for a line printing out a module (only used when :enable_colors is true)
:message_color Set colour for a line with a message (only used when :enable_colors is true)
:methods_color Set colour for a line with methods (only used when :enable_colors is true)
:match Shows only those methods that match this option. It’s value can be either a string or a regexp (default: nil)

You can set default options which will override the inbuild defaults. Here is an example which will hide the methods defined on all instances of Object and show colour in the output (this requires the ansi-termcolor gem): MethodInfo::OptionHandler.default_options =

:ancestors_to_exclude => [Object],
:enable_colors => true

It is suggested that you set these to your liking in your ~/irbrc.

Examples:

>> require 'method_info'
=> true
>> "abc".method_info
::: String :::
%, *, +, <<, <=>, ==, =~, [], []=, bytes, bytesize, capitalize, capitalize!, casecmp, center, chars, chomp, chomp!, chop, chop!, concat, count, crypt, delete, delete!, downcase, downcase!, dump, each, each_byte, each_char, each_line, empty?, end_with?, eql?, gsub, gsub!, hash, hex, include?, index, insert, inspect, intern, is_binary_data?, is_complex_yaml?, length, lines, ljust, lstrip, lstrip!, match, next, next!, oct, partition, replace, reverse, reverse!, rindex, rjust, rpartition, rstrip, rstrip!, scan, size, slice, slice!, split, squeeze, squeeze!, start_with?, strip, strip!, sub, sub!, succ, succ!, sum, swapcase, swapcase!, taguri, taguri=, to_f, to_i, to_s, to_str, to_sym, to_yaml, tr, tr!, tr_s, tr_s!, unpack, upcase, upcase!, upto
::: Enumerable :::
all?, any?, collect, cycle, detect, drop, drop_while, each_cons, each_slice, each_with_index, entries, enum_cons, enum_slice, enum_with_index, find, find_all, find_index, first, grep, group_by, inject, map, max, max_by, member?, min, min_by, minmax, minmax_by, none?, one?, reduce, reject, reverse_each, select, sort, sort_by, take, take_while, to_a, zip
::: Comparable :::
<, <=, >, >=, between?
::: Object :::
to_yaml_properties, to_yaml_style
::: MethodInfo::ObjectMethod :::
method_info
::: Kernel :::
===, __id__, __send__, class, clone, display, dup, enum_for, equal?, extend, freeze, frozen?, id, instance_eval, instance_exec, instance_of?, instance_variable_defined?, instance_variable_get, instance_variable_set, instance_variables, is_a?, kind_of?, method, methods, nil?, object_id, private_methods, protected_methods, public_methods, respond_to?, send, singleton_methods, taint, tainted?, tap, to_enum, type, untaint
Methodless: #<Class:#<String:0x13fd42c>>
=> nil
::: Symbol :::
===, id2name, inspect, taguri, taguri=, to_i, to_int, to_proc, to_s, to_sym, to_yaml
Excluded: Object, MethodInfo::ObjectMethod, Kernel
=> nil

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

method_info

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