From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T11:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Using a string to find a class

Pat Maddox wrote:
> I've got a string, and I want to find out if there's a class with that
> name.  So something like
>
> class_exists? "Foo"
>
> and then I can eval it if it does, I guess.  Or is there a better way
> than eval in that case?  At any rate, I just want to be able to take a
> string and find out if there's a class with that name or not.

module.const_get "Foo"
# or just
const_get "Foo"

Cheers,
Dave