From: Gaudi Mi <gaudimila@...>
Date: 2006-03-17T14:11:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Reflection question(?)

I'll try that, thanks Kev!

G


Kev Jackson wrote:
> Gaudi Mi wrote:
> 
>>At runtime I have the name of a class in a string, and I want to call a 
>>method on the class having that name. How do I do that?
>>
>>E.g., let's say that we have several classes that all have a method 
>>called address().
>>At run-time I know I want to call the method address() on a particular 
>>class, and that class name is in a string.
>>  
>>
> you need to look at call
> 
> eg to instantiate an object (call Object.new)
> 
> m = c.method(:new)
> o = m.call
> 
> to call address method
> 
> m = c.method(:address)
> m.call
> 
> Kev


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