From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T01:06:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Method for turning strings into code

On Friday 30 December 2005 10:51 am, James Britt wrote:
> 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

Thanks James, and you to Johannes.

SteveT

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