How do I inspect the methods of a Ruby object?

Question

I am wondering if there is a Ruby method call that shows only the methods defined by the Ruby object it\'s called from, as opposed to all the methods defined by its ancestor cla

Answer 1

You have a few options - object.methods, object.public_methods, object.singleton_methods... it depends on what you want. Since they both return an array, you might want to try something like:

# obj is the current object
parent = obj.class.superclass

methods = (obj.methods - parent.methods)