From: Craig <craigjordanlaw@...>
Date: 2005-11-28T10:27:28+09:00
Subject: Rails Web Service: Convert Parameter to Class Method Call?

I'm trying to write a method for a web service that will find objects
from a user specified table, i.e. find all Widgets added in last 7
days, or find all Whatsits whose name starts with Q.

I could right a  separate method for each table calling i.e.
Widget.find() or Whatsit.find(), but what I'd like to do is have a
single interface that lets me call something like
user_specified_table.find() where user_specified_table is a string
equal to either Widget or Whatsit.

How can I do this? Is there an entirely different way of doing this
that I should be looking at?