From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T22:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating an instance from a variable

Robert Klemme wrote:

>You need to catch NameError.
>
>class Builder
>   def Builder.create( klass_sym, data )
>        begin
>            return Kernel.const_get( klass_sym ).new( data )
>        rescue NameError => e
>            raise "There was an error: #{e}"
>        end
>   end
>end
>
>
>    robert
>
Thanks for that, I thought that an open rescue would have caught it. 
Live and learn.

Thanks