Method_Finder is a clone for the MethodFinder functionality of Smalltalk.

The results on irb should ilustrate:

require 'method_finder' #=> true
2.match_method([2],4) #=> ["*", "**", "+"]
[1].match_method([2],[1,2]) #=> ["<<", "push"]
[1].match_method([2,3],[1,2,3]) #=> ["push"]
[3,2,1].match_method([],[1,2,3]) #=> ["reverse", "reverse!", "sort", "sort!"]

Note that default mac ruby and the spec_helper sometimes require 'rubygem', and because of that some tests like the ones bellow broke. This is because tests are poorly made, and when rubygems adds gcd or power! to methods the tests become wrong.

2.match_method([2],4).should == ['**','*',"+","power!","rpower"].sort
5.match_method([4],1).should == ['%','-','/','<=>','div','modulo','remainder','^','gcd'].sort

Passing string parameters, nested arrays and even blocks works fine as well:

1.match_method(["respond_to?"], true).should == ["respond_to"]
[1,2,3,4,5].match_method([],[1,3,5]){|i| (i % 2 == 1)}.should == ["find_all", "select"]
"rails".match_method(["r", "f"], "fails").should == ["gsub", "gsub!", "sub", "sub!", "tr", "tr!", "tr_s", "tr_s!"]

There is a gem now, thanks to Pbalduino.

Know Issues
In Ruby 1.9+ the method Array#cycle does not stop, so we igore it.
In order to have the specs to pass and not print out warnings, we ignore some methods from rspec's mock framework.