From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-05-21T06:40:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15438] Newbye question: retrieving a Class by its classname

Hi,
I've been retrieving a Class object by its class name by doing:

 def XmlElem.getClass4Name(name)
  if(eval("defined? #{name} and #{name}.type == Class "))
   return eval("#name")
  else
   return nil
  end
 end

it seems to work but is it the best way, I try to avoid using eval normally.
Benoit