From: Mike Harris <GENIE@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T04:09:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Using .each with constructors

Ben Zealley wrote:

>Is there a nice elegant way of creating several named objects of the
>same class? I naively tried
>
>a,b,c,d = 0
>[a, b, c, d].each { |o| o = SomeClass.new }
>
>and found that while they get initialised inside the block, they get
>destroyed leaving it. I can't believe
>
>a = SomeClass.new
>b = SomeClass.new
>etc.
>
>is the best way to do it. I can populate an array, but let's
>hypothesise that for reasons relating to irritating corporate coding
>standards, the variables need specific names... ;)
>
>Thoughts appreciated! Cheers
>
>  
>
The parallel assignment/array expansion approach suggested by patrick 
and james will definitely work.  You could also try

[:a,:b,:c,:d].each { |x| eval "#{x} = SomeClass.new" }