From: twifkak@...
Date: 2005-07-21T01:00:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable class (newb question)

I can't really comment on design quality, as 1)mine's never been spifferoonic, and 2)it's hard for me to visualize this in the context of a larger app right now. But here's a coupla ways you might do that.

The most direct port is this:

these_survey_questions.each do |question_type|
  clazz = self.class.const_get "SurveyQuestion#{question_type}"
  q = clazz.new
  q.store_response response_from_this_user
end

Another way would be:

GreatBigFactoryHash = { "MultiChoice" => SurveyQuestionMultiChoice,
                                        "CheckBox" => SurveyQuestionCheckBox, ... }

these_survey_questions.each do |question_type|
  clazz = GreatBigFactoryHash[question_type]
  q = clazz.new
  q.store_response response_from_this_user
end

I'm sure there's a better way, but it's not occurring to me right now.

Devin