Is there a way to obtain the string representation of fully qualified path to the method?
Consider following IRB session:
> foo = File.stat("/") > magic(foo.ctime) or foo.ctime.magic => "File::Stat#ctime" Is there any built-in function that does the "magic"? If not, can I get the string dynamically by doing some reflection?
note: I am aware of this question, but I can't use the pry.
One might call Object#method, returning an instance of Method:
foo.method(:ctime) #⇒ File::Stat#ctime() The fully qualified method name might be extracted e.g. from a Method#to_s:
foo.method(:ctime).to_s[/(?<=\A#<Method: ).*(?=>)\z/] #⇒ "File::Stat#ctime" I am not aware of any ability to get the fq-name directly from Method instance, without this regexp trick.
As properly pointed by Алексей Кузнецов in comments, to avoid regexp one might use:
full_method_name = "#{method.owner.name}##{method.name}" #⇒ "File::Stat#ctime" 
method = foo.method(:ctime) # => File::Stat#ctime() full_method_name = "#{method.owner.name}##{method.name}" # => "File::Stat#ctime"
File.method(:ctime).owner.name # => nil. What?