Is there a way to access method arguments in Ruby?

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In Ruby 1.9.2 and later you can use the parameters method on a method to get the list of parameters for that method. This will return a list of pairs indicating the name of the parameter and whether it is required.

e.g.

If you do

def foo(x, y)
end

then

method(:foo).parameters # => [[:req, :x], [:req, :y]]

You can use the special variable __method__ to get the name of the current method. So within a method the names of its parameters can be obtained via

args = method(__method__).parameters.map { |arg| arg[1].to_s }

You could then display the name and value of each parameter with

logger.error "Method failed with " + args.map { |arg| "#{arg} = #{eval arg}" }.join(', ')

Note: since this answer was originally written, in current versions of Ruby eval can no longer be called with a symbol. To address this, an explicit to_s has been added when building the list of parameter names i.e. parameters.map { |arg| arg[1].to_s }

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