From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T22:41:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Using a string to find a class

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:26:21AM +0900, 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.

http://redcorundum.blogspot.com/2006/05/kernelqualifiedconstget.html

} Thanks,
} Pat
--Greg