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There is a problem in the realm of Ruby metaprogramming" objects can be liars. You see, there is no guaruntee that the return value of a method is the "truth". Any object can play dirty tricks.

string = "Watch this..."

def string.class
  nil
end

string.class  #=> nil

We are never going to know what the mirror class of that object is by asking it. So what can we do?

I've decided I could at least provide my own library that provides some of the functionality.

require 'mirror'

Mirror[string].class  #=> String

Installation

Putting the old RubyGems to work:

$ gem install mirror

Copyrights

Real is copyrighted open source software.

Copyright (c) 2012 Rubyworks (BSD-2-Clause)

You many redistribute or modify this work in accordance with the BSD-2-Clause license.

See LICENSE.txt for details.