How to get the name of the calling method?

is there a way in Ruby to find the calling method name inside of a method?

For example:

class Test
  def self.foo
    Fooz.bar
  end
end

class Fooz
  def self.bar
    # get Test.foo or foo
  end
end

puts caller[0]

or perhaps...

puts caller[0][/`.*'/][1..-2]

In Ruby 2.0.0, you can use:

caller_locations(1,1)[0].label

It's much faster than the Ruby 1.8+ solution:

caller[0][/`([^']*)'/, 1]

Will get included in backports when I get the time (or a pull request!).

Use caller_locations(1,1)[0].label (for ruby >= 2.0)

Edit: My answer was saying to use __method__ but I was wrong, it returns the current method name.

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