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diff --git a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md index 23736020ec..b0c3400ea8 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md +++ b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md @@ -422,24 +422,6 @@ NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/object/with_options.rb`. Active Support provides several methods to ease access to instance variables. -#### `instance_variable_names` - -Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 have a method called `instance_variables` that returns the names of the defined instance variables. But they behave differently, in 1.8 it returns strings whereas in 1.9 it returns symbols. Active Support defines `instance_variable_names` as a portable way to obtain them as strings: - -```ruby -class C - def initialize(x, y) - @x, @y = x, y - end -end - -C.new(0, 1).instance_variable_names # => ["@y", "@x"] -``` - -WARNING: The order in which the names are returned is unspecified, and it indeed depends on the version of the interpreter. - -NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb`. - #### `instance_values` The method `instance_values` returns a hash that maps instance variable names without "@" to their |