Given an instance of a Ruby object, how do I get its metaclass?
Normally, I might get the metaclass for a particular instance of a Ruby object with something like this:
class C
def metaclass
class << self; self; end
end
end
# This is this instance's metaclass.
C.new.metaclass => #<Class:#<C:0x01234567>>
# Successive invocations will have different metaclasses,
# since they're different instances.
C.new.开发者_开发问答metaclass => #<Class:#<C:0x01233...>>
C.new.metaclass => #<Class:#<C:0x01232...>>
C.new.metaclass => #<Class:#<C:0x01231...>>
Let's say I just want to know the metaclass of an arbitrary object instance obj
of an arbitrary class, and I don't want to define a metaclass
(or similar) method on the class of obj
.
Is there a way to do that?
The official name is singleton_class
. The way to get it (in Ruby 1.9.2) is simply:
obj.singleton_class
For older Ruby versions, you can use backports
:
require 'backports/1.9.2/kernel/singleton_class'
obj.singleton_class
# or without using backports:
class << obj; self; end
Yep.
metaclass = class << obj; self; end
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