From: Sy Ali <sy1234@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T22:50:34+09:00
Subject: patching strings together to make a variable

I'm curious to know if I can patch multiple things together to make a variable.

I have some imaginary code snippets.  The most direct way I can think
of is something like this:

$a = true
$var = "fail"
$variable = "pass"

puts "#{$var(if $a == true then "iable" end)}"

since $a == true, I would like this to become:
puts "#{$variable}"

But this doesn't work.  I didn't expect it to, but is something like
this possible?  Am I stuck with this? :

puts "#{if $a == true then $variable else $var end}"


What I'd really like to learn is how I can patch multiple strings
together and call it a variable.  I think I'm just missing some simple
piece of this puzzle..

The imaginary code would be:

ab = "pass"
puts ("a" + "b").to_variable

Or to a global, an instance variable, etc.. envisioned like this:

puts $("a" + "b")
puts @("a" + "b")


If there's a simple way to do this, a code snippet or a pointer to a
manual reference would be all I need.