Go-to-Definition work for object.send(:method_name)

[palexvs]

I have checked that this feature is not already implemented

• This feature does not exist

Use case

I have a project with multiple usage of object.send(:method_name) pattern. Would be nice to be able to go to :method_name method implementation in one click using Go-to-Definition functionality
I know object.send(:method_name) is not the best practice, but it's partially for reason, partially a tech-debt

Description

Got to :method_name method implementation my F12 or mouse click on :method_name in object.send(:method_name) or object.send :method_name code

Implementation

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[vinistock]

Thanks for the proposal. We could search for all names with method_name and show all options, but it's not possible to know the exact result since we likely won't be able to figure out the type of the object receiver.

For anyone looking to implement this, we need to enhance our go to definition on symbols to

• check if the enclosing_call is a send or public_send
• if so, extract the method name from the symbol or string argument (return early if the argument is not a literal)
• Then invoke handle_method_definition passing the extracted method name and no receiver