From: "regularfry (Alex Young)" Date: 2012-03-31T18:24:24+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:43999] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5628] Module#basename Issue #5628 has been updated by regularfry (Alex Young). =begin I'm doing something remarkably similar to this for mapping command-line subcommand selection into a module's namespace. It's very handy. =end ---------------------------------------- Feature #5628: Module#basename https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5628#change-25522 Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: Target version: 2.0.0 Something I use fairly often: some_module.name.split("::").last It's useful for things like factory methods. It would be much nicer if we had: class Module def basename name.split("::").last end end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/