From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-10-05T05:37:21+09:00
Subject: Re: creating objects

Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/3/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>> Felix McCoey wrote:
>> > 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
>> >
>
> @class_name = User
> @class_name.new
>
> -or-
>
> @class_name = "User"

eval(@class_name).new

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