From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T10:38:56+09:00
Subject: Re: string to Class object

Good question. A crappy way:

ObjectSpace.each_object {|obj|
  break obj if Class === obj and obj.name == clazz
}

But I'm still young. There might be a non-crappy way.

Devin

R. Mark Volkmann wrote:

>How can I create a Class object from a String that contains the name of a class?
>For example, after
>
>clazz = Array
>
>the variable clazz holds a Class object representing the class Array.
>I want to start with a string like this.
>
>name = 'Array'
>clazz = ???
>
>--
>R. Mark Volkmann
>Partner, Object Computing, Inc.
>
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