From: Bryan Zarnett <b@...>
Date: 2001-07-14T20:36:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17838] Re: Creating methods on the fly


You could use the operation "send" on an object to invoke a method at 
runtime based on a name.

If you want to create both the object and method at runtime you could:

foo = Method.const_get("SomeClass").new
foo.send("#{mySetMethod"}=",aValue)

Just one example of course.

Bryan


>I would like to create a new method on the fly.  Assuming I have a
>variable containing the name I want to give the method, how can I create
>it at runtime?
>
>I will need to stick the values of some other variables into the code for
>the method, too.
>
>Feel free to point me at a section in the pickaxe book.


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