Printing the source code of a Ruby block - ruby

Question

I have a method that takes a block.
Obviously I don't know what is going to be passed in and for bizarre reasons that I won't go into here I want to print the contents of the block.
Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

You can do this with Ruby2Ruby which implements a to_ruby method.
require 'rubygems'
require 'parse_tree'
require 'parse_tree_extensions'
require 'ruby2ruby'
def meth &block
puts block.to_ruby
end
meth { some code }
will output:
"proc { some(code) }"
I would also check out this awesome talk by Chris Wanstrath of Github http://goruco2008.confreaks.com/03_wanstrath.html He shows some interesting ruby2ruby and parsetree usage examples.

Answer 2

In Ruby 1.9+ (tested with 2.1.2), you can use https://github.com/banister/method_source
Print out the source via block#source:
#! /usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'method_source'
def wait &block
puts "Running the following code: #{block.source}"
puts "Result: #{yield}"
puts "Done"
end
def run!
x = 6
wait { x == 5 }
wait { x == 6 }
end
run!
Note that in order for the source to be read you need to use a file and execute the file (testing it out from irb will result in the following error: MethodSource::SourceNotFoundError: Could not load source for : No such file or directory # rb_sysopen - (irb)

Answer 3

Building on Evangenieur's answer, here's Corban's answer if you had Ruby 1.9:
# Works with Ruby 1.9
require 'sourcify'
def meth &block
# Note it's to_source, not to_ruby
puts block.to_source
end
meth { some code }
My company uses this to display the Ruby code used to make carbon calculations... we used ParseTree with Ruby 1.8 and now sourcify with Ruby 1.9.

Answer 4

In Ruby 1.9, you can try this gem which extract the code from source file.
https://github.com/ngty/sourcify

Answer 5

In Ruby 2.5 the following works
puts block.source

Answer 6

In ruby 2.7, using the method_source gem (pry depends on it)
Set.instance_method(:merge).source.display
# =>
def merge(enum)
if enum.instance_of?(self.class)
#hash.update(enum.instance_variable_get(:#hash))
else
do_with_enum(enum) { |o| add(o) }
end
self
end
The repo says it works for procs, but I haven't tested it.