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binding_of_caller
Ruby2012–2016
banister / binding_of_caller

binding_of_caller

Retrieve the binding of a method's caller in MRI 1.9.2+

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
672GitHub stars
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Retrieve the binding of a method's caller in MRI 1.9.2+

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Observed mentions: 2012-12-10 13:09:34 UTC to 2016-12-25 16:03:47 UTC.

012012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Yes. irb(main):008:0> x = "1" => "1" irb(main):009:0> debug [1] pry(main)> x NameError: undefined local variable or method `x' for main:Object from (pry):1:in `debug' If you really want to do this, you can use binding_of_caller[1] to create binding object (`Kernel.binding`) up in the call stack: require 'binding_of_caller' require 'pry' module Kernel def debug binding.of_caller(1).pry end end Then: irb(main):008:0> x = "1" => "1" irb(main):009:0> debug [1] pry(main)> x => "1" [1]: https://github.com/banister/binding_of_caller
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