From: Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T20:21:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating an instance from a variable

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:54:47 +0900
Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:

| I have a class like this:
| 
| class Builder
|     def Builder.create( klass, data )
|         return klass.new(data)
|     end
| end

use (I have not tested this):

class Builder
    def Builder.create( klass, data )
        return Object.const_get(klass).new(data)
    end
end

*hth*,
Thomas


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