How do I get the name of a Ruby class?

Question

How can I get the class name from an ActiveRecord object?I have: result = User.find(1)I tried: result.class # => User(id: integer, name: string ...) result.to_s # => #<0x3d07cdc>"I need only the class name, in a string (`User` in this case). Is there a method for that? I know this is pretty basic, but I searched both Rails' and Ruby's docs, and I couldn't find it.0x3d07cdc>

Answer 1

result.class.name is what you want.

Here's the documentation for the name method: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.1/Module.html#method-i-name Class inherits the name method from Module.

Keep in mind that namespaces are part of the name, too:

module Continents

class Europe

end

end

europe = Continents::Europe.new

europe.class.name # => "Continents::Europe"