Ruby: a constant receiver pins the call instead of splitting it across every same-named method

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The gap

resolve.h's Rule 2c already says "the receiver token IS the type" (docs/EVALS.md "Phase 4b").
It could never fire for Ruby: ingest_binds.h::classifyReceiver accepted a receiver node of kind
(identifier) only, and Ruby's class/module receiver is its own node kind — (constant) for
Calc, (scope_resolution) for Outer::Engine and ::Top. Every Cls.m(…) call therefore
classified RecvKind::None, receiverOf stamped it FieldOfVar with an empty recvVar, and the
resolver fell through to the §2a name spray. Ruby's one call form that carries a type was the one
the type rule never saw:

class Calc;  def self.add( a, b ); a + b; end; end
class Tally; def self.add( a, b ); a - b; end; end

Calc.add( 1, 2 )   # before: two <c n="add" prov="split"/> edges, amb="1"
                   # after:  one edge, to Calc::add

Measured on the four Ruby corpora before the change: activerecord 8.1.3 lib = 9,116 edges with
ambiguous=1,496 and declined=4,576; a 4,683-file Rails app = 23,784 edges with declined=12,485.

The rule

• The receiver's final constant segment is the type name (Outer::Engine → Engine, ::Top →
  Top). That is the same final-segment convention Rule 2's type bindings already use (ns::Foo →
  Foo), and the one that meets Symbol::scope, which is the IMMEDIATE enclosing name by design.
• A (scope_resolution) whose name: child is not a (constant) is not a constant receiver.
  Outer::run( 1 ) never arrives as one — tree-sitter-ruby parses it as an ordinary (call) with a
  (constant) receiver, exactly like Outer.run( 1 ), so both spellings narrow through the same arm.
• A Ruby module joins Rule 2c's class-name set. Util.format is a class-method call through a
  module; @definition.module maps to SymKind::Other (ingest_crawl.h::defKind) for every
  language rather than to a kind of its own. Restricted to Ruby, where the implication runs both
  ways: queries/ruby/tags.scm emits class, module, method and constant, and the other three have
  kinds of their own, so a Ruby SymKind::Other symbol IS a module.
• A miss never deletes an edge. A receiver naming no in-repo definition (Time.now), or naming one
  that does not define the callee, degrades to the unchanged honest ladder.

Measured, --no-cache, before → after

corpus	files	edges	ambiguous	declined
activesupport 8.1.3 lib	290	3,868 → 3,912	468 → 434	1,022 → 985
activerecord 8.1.3 lib	398	9,116 → 9,152	1,496 → 1,479	4,576 → 4,497
actionpack 8.1.3 lib	157	3,151 → 3,140	390 → 364	943 → 923
Rails app A (private)	4,683	23,784 → 24,376	1,328 → 1,263	12,485 → 11,624
Rails app B (private)	2,174	14,859 → 15,257	275 → 431	3,264 → 3,050

declined falls on all five — those are call sites the resolver refused to guess at and now has
evidence for. Two numbers that look wrong and are not:

• actionpack's edges fall. A pinned call is ONE edge where a two-way split was two.
• App B's ambiguous rises while its declined falls by 214. A receiver naming two
  same-final-segment classes that both define the callee produces an honest split where there was
  previously no edge at all — floor (b) below, not a regression.

No collateral movement. The default map is byte-identical to main (316dbf2, built in a
scratch worktree) on this repo's src/, npm, a Clojure project, CPython 3.14's stdlib and this
whole repository; this repository's --report totals are unchanged at 2,052 files · 18,979 symbols
· 22,529 edges; --deps is byte-identical on activerecord (this round is call graph only, and does
not touch the constant-directive work from #57/#65/#139).

Floors, each pinned by an arm of the gate

• (a) Ruby feeds no class-hierarchy edges. ingest_relations.h::captureBases has no Ruby arm,
  so a method inherited from a superclass does not narrow: Child.build stays an honest split.
  This is what holds the gem numbers down — a gem's class methods are reached up an
  ActiveRecord::Base hierarchy — and it is the obvious next round (it would also give Ruby the
  --lego inheritance view it has never had).
• (b) Matching is by final segment, so Left::Shared and Right::Shared both keep their go.
  Narrowing to one of them needs the Ruby constant index from feat(ruby): constant references are dependencies — superclass, mixins and autoload, resolved through the corpus's own class/module index #57, and a claim in the gate.
• (c) Variable and chained receivers are untouched — c.scale and Calc.new.scale are
  unchanged two-way splits.

Gate

test/rubyrecvnarrowcheck.sh (43 arms) was written and committed RED first: 29 passed and 14
failed against the pre-change binary, and every control and floor arm was live and green before
the fix. Besides the narrowing claims it pins: a miss degrading to the ladder, Time.now minting
nothing, determinism, warm == cold, xmllint, and a mutation arm that moves the receiver from
Calc to Tally and requires the edge to follow it. test/regression.sh lists it; the generated
gate count moves 621 → 622 through docs/gatecount_build.py.

Also green locally: the eight other Ruby gates, plus clsrecv, narrow, narrowlang,
chainguard, externalveto, resolve, resolverhonesty, shadow, decline, fieldnarrow,
qualifiedresolve, qextractionkey, version, cachehash. ASan (-fno-sanitize-recover=all,
committed LSan suppressions) is clean on activerecord and on the 4,683-file Rails app, and the gate
passes under the ASan binary. The full sequential battery is running; I will post its verdict as a
comment on this PR.

Versions

kParserVer 96 → 97 — record layout is unchanged (kCacheVersion stays 22), but the VALUES of
recv/recvVar move, so Ruby extraction facts must be re-parsed. quality.h's
kIngestParserVerMirror moves in the same commit and test/qschemetrip.hash is re-pinned. The
branch is based on 316dbf2, where main is also at 96 — if main spends 97 before this merges,
the number renumbers on the way in.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved Ruby call resolution for constant and module receivers such as Calc.add, Outer::Engine.run, and Util.format.
  • Calls now more accurately connect to the intended class or module method instead of producing multiple ambiguous matches.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved existing behavior for variable and chained receivers, unresolved calls, and same-name collisions.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for Ruby receiver resolution, cache consistency, determinism, and inheritance-related edge cases.

• Documentation

  • Updated gate-suite references to reflect 622 available checks.

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Ruby receiver narrowing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Receiver extraction and cache invalidation src/ingest_binds.h, src/ingest_cache.h, src/quality.h	Ruby constant and scope-resolution receivers now use their final constant segment for receiver classification. Parser-version values increase from 96 to 97.
Rule 2c receiver matching src/graph.h, CHANGELOG.md	Ruby module symbols now participate in Rule 2c class-name matching. The changelog records the supported cases and stated limits.
Regression coverage and gate integration test/rubyrecvnarrowcheck.sh, test/regression.sh, README.md, docs/EVALS.md, present/deck5_ripwire_build.js	A new gate checks qualified, scoped, module, miss, floor, determinism, cache, and mutation cases. Gate-count references increase from 621 to 622.

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Check both cache command exit statuses.

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-"$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/cold.xml" 2>/dev/null
-"$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/warm.xml" 2>/dev/null
+if ! "$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/cold.xml" 2>"$DIR/cold.err"; then
+    no "cold cache run exited non-zero: $( head -3 "$DIR/cold.err" )"
+fi
+if ! "$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/warm.xml" 2>"$DIR/warm.err"; then
+    no "warm cache run exited non-zero: $( head -3 "$DIR/warm.err" )"
+fi
 cmp -s "$DIR/cold.xml" "$DIR/warm.xml" && ok "warm run == cold run" || no "the warm cache disagrees with the cold run — the parser version did not move with the extraction change"

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	"$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/cold.xml" 2>/dev/null
	"$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/warm.xml" 2>/dev/null
	cmp -s "$DIR/cold.xml" "$DIR/warm.xml" && ok "warm run == cold run" || no "the warm cache disagrees with the cold run — the parser version did not move with the extraction change"
	if ! "$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/cold.xml" 2>"$DIR/cold.err"; then
	no "cold cache run exited non-zero: $( head -3 "$DIR/cold.err" )"
	fi
	if ! "$BIN" "$FIX" --cache="$DIR/c.bin" >"$DIR/warm.xml" 2>"$DIR/warm.err"; then
	no "warm cache run exited non-zero: $( head -3 "$DIR/warm.err" )"
	fi
	cmp -s "$DIR/cold.xml" "$DIR/warm.xml" && ok "warm run == cold run" || no "the warm cache disagrees with the cold run — the parser version did not move with the extraction change"

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Thanks for this, @andriytyurnikov. Treating Ruby's (constant) / (scope_resolution) receivers as a type is exactly the gap Rule 2c was waiting on. A first pass on CI before the full review:

1. gateexitcheck (G1): the new test/rubyrecvnarrowcheck.sh defines ok(){ echo " PASS $1"; return 0; }. The house idiom records a failed write so a lost PASS line can't slip through silently:

   ok(){ echo "  PASS  $1" || { fail=1; echo "  FAIL  could not write the PASS line for: $1"; }; return 0; }

   Any existing gate (e.g. test/nongitqmetricscheck.sh) shows the full pattern.
2. showcasecapturecheck (H): your graph.h insertions move rankGraphTeleport off the published capture seed (graph.h:3406). You don't need to chase this. We regenerate the capture, and assign kParserVer plus the qschemetrip re-pin, when the PR lands, because several open PRs move the same pins.

Please push only the ok() fix. An independent review follows, and its findings will come in one batch.

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Thanks @andriytyurnikov. All three first-pass items are in at b3270335, and this is ready to land.

What we checked:

• gateexitcheck and manifestcheck are clean on the new gate.
• rubyrecvnarrowcheck is 43/43 on this head. On the true merge-base it goes red, 29 pass / 13 fail.
• We drew an independent sample from a local Rails checkout (a newer snapshot than your 8.1.3, on purpose), graded against the source: 20 of 20 sites better, 0 same, 0 worse. That's a Wilson 95% interval of [83.9%, 100%].
• No perf regression, and output is byte-identical across runs.

Two things beyond what the PR measured:

1. A wrong→right fix. activesupport/.../date_and_time/calculations.rb:247: Date.beginning_of_week used to land on the caller's own Calculations#beginning_of_week, a silent self-referential edge from the old bare-name fallback. It now resolves to Date's method.
2. A floor worth naming. action_dispatch/journey/parser.rb defines both def self.parse and def parse. Journey::Parser.parse can only reach the singleton, but it now gets an honest two-way split that also lists the instance method. That's a split, not a wrong pin, so it doesn't block this PR. method and singleton_method are already distinct captures in tags.scm, so a later round could separate them. We'll add a floor (d) sentence next to your (a)–(c) when this lands, so it reads as a decision rather than a surprise.

Landing: this goes in with our next integration train. The conflicts are all shared pins (kParserVer, test/qschemetrip.hash, the gate count, CHANGELOG), and we reconcile those on the merged tree, so please don't rebase or resolve them.

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This PR is part of integration train 3, #281, and will show as merged when that train lands.

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Landed via #281 (integration train 3), which merged your commits e6a13c12, 2688caae and b3270335 unchanged, so they're on main now. GitHub keeps this PR open only because the later 3579a39f main-merge commit isn't in main. That commit has no changes of its own to carry. Credit is in the CHANGELOG, together with the floor (d) note. Thank you, @andriytyurnikov: constant receivers are a real step for Ruby call accuracy.