From: Michael Trier <mtrier@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T00:37:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting a string to a class

Just learning, but what's wrong with eval?  I do something like the
following in order to convert from a string to an object of the type
specified by the string:

a = "MyClass"
my_class = eval(a)
my_class.to_s

Michael