Can a Ruby method know it's name?

Question

Is there any way to know the name of the method currently run in Ruby?

EDIT

For example I can use self to get the current class. Is there a way to get the current method that is running? Is there a 'magic method' that can do the following?

def method1
    p "this method's name is " + magicmethod # => this method's name is method1
end

Answer 1

There is __method__:

class Test
  def testing
    __method__
  end
end

Note that __method__ is a Symbol and not a String

This requires at least Ruby 1.8.7.

Answer 2

How the below: :)

p RUBY_VERSION

module Kernel
private
    def method_name
      caller[0] =~ /`([^']*)'/ and $1
    end
end

class Foo
  def test_method
    method_name
  end
end

puts Foo.new.test_method 

Output:

"1.9.3"
test_method