From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T22:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Method for turning strings into code

On Saturday 31 December 2005 06:07 am, Erik Veenstra wrote:
> > > What is the Ruby technique for turning strings into
> > > executable code?
> >
> > Via one of the various forms of eval.
>
> Uh, well, that's not the right answer. Eval evaluates
> (=executes) a string. It doesn't turn a string into executable
> code (=compile).

When I first posed the question, what I really meant was turn it into Ruby 
code (like eval does). Sorry for the confusion.

While we're on the subject, do you know of a way to turn a Ruby program into 
an executable binary?

Thanks

SteveT
 
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