From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-04-30T04:50:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating arbitrary objects

On 4/29/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> 
> > Don't you mean Module.const_get()?
> 
> Yes, my bad.  Module.const_get() called on Object, is what I meant.

actually, Module#const_get, or Object.const_get, IMHO :)

Also, the OP might look at #allocate. #allocate never needs arguments,
#new might fail without arguments. Of course, allocate doesn't
initialize...

klass = "Array"
Object.const_get(klass).allocate #==> []

cheers,
Mark