From: CT <demerzel@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T20:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating an instance from a variable

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but I think Kernel.const_get
can help you.
See changes below:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:54:47 +0900, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
> class Builder
>     def Builder.create( klass, data )
         return Kernel.const_get(klass).new(data) #can pass in a string
>     end
> end
> 

You might wanna do some error-catching too.

HTH!
CT