Any way to determine which object called a method? [Ruby]

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Published on 2010-04-24T03:43:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 3:53 UTC
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I'm hoping that Ruby's message-passing infrastructure means there's some clever trick for this...

How do I determine the calling object -- which object called the method I'm currently in?

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