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     gt  User id  integer  name  string      result to s     gt    lt User 0x3d07cdc gt     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

User · Accepted Answer

You want to call  name on the object s class   result class name

User · Answer

Here s the correct answer  extracted from comments by Daniel Rikowski and pseidemann   I m tired of having to weed through comments to find the right answer     If you use Rails  ActiveSupport    result class name demodulize   If you use POR  plain-ol-Ruby    result class name split       last

User · Answer

In my case when I use something like result class name I got something like Module1  class name  But if we only want class name  use   result class table name singularize

User · Answer

Both result class to s and result class name work

User · Answer

If you want to get a class name from inside a class method  class name or self class name won t work   These will just output Class  since the class of a class is Class   Instead  you can just use name   module Foo   class Bar     def self say name       puts  I m a   name        end   end end  Foo  Bar say name   output   I m a Foo  Bar

[ruby-on-rails] How do I get the name of a Ruby class?

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