Finding where a method is defined in Ruby

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Ruby can sometimes look like magic, but, like all magic, if you look hard enough, you can see the sleight of hand. With method_missing, dynamically defined methods, and being able to extend objects at runtime, sometimes it looks like voodoo as to where the method being called is actually defined. You could do a bunch of reverse engineering, or you could just ask ruby.

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