From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T05:33:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a better way...

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 05:03:43AM +0900, James McCarthy wrote:
} Is there an neater way to achieve this without using that clunky eval 
} and inline substitution?
} 
}   def test_confirmation(object, test_attribute, test_values = {}, 
} attributes = {})
}     instance = eval("#{object}.new(attributes)")
}     test_values.each do |value|
}       instance.send("#{test_attribute}=", value)
}       instance.send("#{test_attribute}_confirmation=", value)
}       assert !instance.save
}       assert instance.errors.invalid?(test_attribute)
}     end
}   end
} 
} Just feels a little clunky and wanted some pointers to improve my ruby. 
} Any thoughts would be useful.

Take a look at
http://redcorundum.blogspot.com/2006/05/kernelqualifiedconstget.html

--Greg