From: benjohn@...
Date: 2006-05-10T17:05:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Intantiating a class by name

> No offense to the OP, but this is about the 5th time this has been
> asked by Ruby Forum users in the last few weeks. Ruby Forum REALLY,
> REALLY needs a FAQ with answers to questions like this.

The Ruby Garden has a list of questions like this:

  http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?QuestionsAndAnswers

Specifically, this exact question is addressed:

  http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?FindClassesByName

[Brief discussion, and then two solutions for the the general case,
including an "inject" implementation.]

It's been previously suggested that when questions like this are asked,
and good answers are given, they should be collected. This seems to be
an ideal location for such a catalogue. There are not too many answers
there yet (a dozen, or so). Perhaps in the future, more indexing would
be needed, but it looks ideal for now.

Cheers,
  Benjohn