From: Doug Edmunds <dae_alt3@...>
Date: 2001-03-19T13:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12841] Re: converting a string to a class

My original subject line wasn't very accurate.
Better would have been 'converting a string to a method'
Let me try again.

#the array I am interested in
p self.methods

I can hand-code the value of the methods separately
For example, one of the methods in the array is
"singleton_methods":

      p self.singleton_methods

generates ["public", "private", "include", "to_s"]
 on my machine:

I am trying to figure out how to loop thru the array of
methods generated by self.methods to extract the values
This involves some kind of catenation of "self." with
each array value.

This doesn't work:

self.methods.each { | a_method |
  p "self.#{ a_method }"
  }

It prints out strings "self.private" etc,
not the value of those strings:

It's the difference between
p self.singleton_methods
and
p "self.singleton_methods"