I would like to check when running a method, if it was called from a different method.
EX:
def method1(foo) if # foo previous method == method2 #code elsif # foo previous method == method 3 #code end end def method2 method1(foo) end is there a way to do this?
Yes, you can use caller from Kernel as described in http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/Kernel.html#method-i-caller, although you'll need to extract the method name from the string that caller[0] returns.
Update: The little regex to extract the method name is shown in https://stackoverflow.com/a/5100339/1008891.
caller returns an array of strings that identifies the current execution stack. The first element of the array gives you calling method.