From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-04-30T03:24:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating arbitrary objects

On 4/29/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Matthew Thill wrote:
> 
> > I've probably overlooked something, and hopefully someone can help me
> > out. I want to be able to create arbitrary object from the contents of
> > a string.
> >
> > For example, if I had the following string:
> >
> > classname = "Array"
> >
> > How can I create an Array object, knowing only that the variable
> > classname held the name of some class as a string.
> 
> You're looking for Object.const_get():

Don't you mean Module.const_get()?