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Ruby Binding Class

Ruby's Binding class allows you to access classes, variables, and methods outside of the current scope.

class Foo
	def bar
		my_var = 20
		binding()
	end
end

Normally, if you made reference to my_var outside of that method, you'd get an error. Binding objects allow you to do this:

my_foo = Foo.new

foo_bar = my_foo.bar
puts foo_bar.eval('my_var')

# 20
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