From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-10-23T21:47:34+09:00
Subject: Re: creating objects type only known at runtime

On 23/10/06, Andrew Libby <alibby@tangeis.com> wrote:
>
> This weekend I was playing around with some ruby and wanted
> to create objects whose types were only known at runtime.
> The method I wound up using was
>
> o = eval "#{class_name}.new"
>
> Is this a preferred method.  I come from (mostly) a perl
> background, but also a Java background.  To me this approach
> seems inelegant.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Andy
>
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> Andrew Libby
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> alibby@tangeis.com
>
>

o = Object.const_get(class_name).new

Farrel