Is there a Ruby equivalent for the typeof reserved word in C#?

Question

I have a C# method that I need to call from a piece of Ruby that requires a System.Type argument. Is there a Ruby equivalent to typeof in C#? The call will look something like this in C# ...

var CustomClasInstance = Container.GetInstance(typeof(ICustomClass))

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2192335/is-there-a-ruby-equivalent-for-the-typeof-reserved-word-in-c

Answer 1

In addition to checking Object#class (the instance method class on the Object aka Base class), you could

s.is_a? Thing

this will check to see if s has Thing anywhere in its ancestry.