From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-03-20T01:34:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Methods

Adelle Hartley wrote:

> I have a routine that creates classes based on data retrieved from a
> database.
> 
> It goes something like this:
> 
> unless Object.const_defined?(class_name)
>   Object.const_set(class_name, Class.new(MyBaseClass) do
>       
>       # define a method, that will apply to all
>       # generated classes.
>       def foo() 'foo' end
> 
>     end)
>   end
> end
> 
> Is there a way of making foo a class method without resorting to eval?

def self.foo() 'foo' end