From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T00:51:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Method for turning strings into code

Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What is the Ruby technique for turning strings into executable code?

There's eval:

eval( 'class Foo;def x; puts "x"; end;end' )

Foo.new.x

And its variants (instance_eval, class_eval)


James
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