From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-01-12T01:05:17+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I give a name to an anonymous class

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 sayoyo@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm try to create a generic anonymous class, and I want to set the
> class name of the class, however I can't find a function which allow me
> to do this, the only way I can do this is actually assigner the newly
> create class to a constant. the classname will be (in my case)
> GenActRec::className.
>
> Does someone know how to remove the "GenActRec::" ???
>
> Does someone know is there another way to do this????
>
> this is my generic class:
>
> class GenActRec < ActiveRecord::Base
>
> 	def self.buildNewTableClass(className, tableName)
> 		genClass = Class.new(GenActRec)
> 		const_set("#{className.to_s}", genClass)
> 		genClass.set_table_name tableName
> 		genClass.reset_column_information()
> 		return genClass
> 	end
>
> end

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   class A
     c = Class::new do
       def foo
         42
       end
     end

     ::B = c
     Object::const_set 'B2', c
   end

   p B::new.foo
   p B2::new.foo


   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   42
   42


-a
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