instance method `anonymous?`

Ruby on Rails 4.1.16

Since v3.0.20

Compare with:

anonymous?()

A module may or may not have a name.

module M; end
M.name # => "M"

m = Module.new
m.name # => nil

A module gets a name when it is first assigned to a constant. Either via the module or class keyword or by an explicit assignment:

m = Module.new # creates an anonymous module
M = m          # => m gets a name here as a side-effect
m.name         # => "M"

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/anonymous.rb, line 16
  def anonymous?
    name.nil?
  end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/anonymous.rb line 16 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in Module

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