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Filter Listings of an Object’s Methods in IRB

So the next stop after sorting an object's methods in irb, is to be able to filter it.

Why? Well I roughly know the method name, so how about filtering down that big list of 163 methods names to something smaller? like say 5?

The traditional way to do it is (yes without the change in my last post):

object.methods.sort.select { |a| a =~ /rev/ }

Damn that's one long line. Even with my change, it reduces it by only 5 characters.

So what is one to do? Try popping this into your ~/.irbrc:

class Object
  def methods_with_sort(filter = nil)
    methods = methods_without_sort
    if filter
      filter  = Regexp.new(filter.to_s, true) unless filter.is_a? Regexp
      methods = methods.select { |method| method =~ filter }
    end
    methods.sort
  end
  alias_method :methods_without_sort, :methods
  alias_method :methods, :methods_with_sort
end

Now we can do this:

object.methods :rev

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