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How can I view methods associated with an Elixir object?

In which I remember how to introspect in Elixir
Published2021-06-24
Tagselixir

Let’s say we have the following module

defmodule Reminder do
  def alarm(time, day) do
  end
end

We can check what methods are on it by providing a :functions atom

Reminder.__info__(:functions)
# [alarm: 2]

As we can see, this Reminder module has an alarm method, with an arity of 2.