From: Felix McCoey <felix.mccoey@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T15:39:06+09:00
Subject: creating objects

i know that in PHP it is possible to do the following:

$class_name = 'User';
$$class_name->new()

but I want to do this in ruby like this perhaps:

@class_name = 'User'
@class_name.new

What is this called and is it possible in ruby. Or is there an
alternative to creating objects from just the class name?

-felix