From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-05-10T21:52:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Intantiating a class by name

On May 10, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Erich L. Timkar wrote:

> For the life of me I haven't been able to find the syntax to
> "instatiate" a class given it's name.  I know it's silly.  I feel  
> silly
> and when I hear the answer, I'll fill twice as silly.  Anyone wanna  
> take
> a stab at this and put me out of my misery?

class Foo; end

def make_new(klass)
   klass.new
end

make_new(Foo) # => #<Foo:0x2c4f4>

Classes and modules are constants.  If you have a string containing  
the class/module name use the inject+const_get solution.

-- Daniel