Since Ruby 2.1, defining a method returns its name as a Symbol:

def foo() end             # => :foo
define_method :foo do end # => :foo

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You can use this to do Python-like decorators like so:

private def foo; end 
memoize def foo; end

Ruby 2.1 returns a symbol when defining a method