dougbarth

  1 class Object
  2   # Returns a hash where the key is a message that this object
  3   # responds to and the value is the first object that responded
  4   # to that message.
  5   def first_responders
  6     methods_hash = {}
  7     self.class.instance_methods.each {|m| methods_hash[m] = self}
  8     self.class.ancestors.each do |ancestor|
  9       ancestor.instance_methods.each {|m| methods_hash[m] = ancestor}
 10     end