Find the Source of a Ruby Method's "Super"

I've spent part of the last couple days debugging the bowels of a pesky Rails project. The issue was the infamous Stack Level Too Deep error.

I found the source of the problem was a gem's method calling super. And while the stack trace of an error will show you the pathway of an error, sometimes it can be helpful to manually find that pathway yourself during the debugging process.

It can be done in a quick one-liner using the name of the method:

method(:method_name).super_method.to_s

Where method_name is the name of the method you want to check.

Here's a simplistic example to demonstrate:

class A
  def foo
    'bar'
  end
end

class B < A
  def foo
    method(:foo).super_method.to_s
  end
end

a = A.new
a.foo # => bar

b = B.new
b.foo # => #<Method: A#foo>