From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-04T06:21:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating Classes at runtime

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Robert Dober wrote:

>
>
> Hmm but that still leaves the OP's  question unanswered, how can I  create
> a  named class dynamically.
>
> eval "class #{x}; end"
> myref2class = Object.const_get(x)
>
>
> obviously does the job. ( I agree seems flawed to me too, but OP might have
> his reasons )
>
> I had a quick look into class.c and it seems that rb_define_class is the
> only way to define the name of the class object, which would mean that eval
> is the only way to do the trick.
>
> Any opinnions?

i think we've come full circle, but you can do

   c = Object.const_set 'C', Class.new{}

i was just unsure it was actually needed

cheers.

-a
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