From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T04:24:06+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the difference between send and instance_eval?

> I may not understand it well, but I don't like it. The two methods are
> so similar that the only way to figure out the difference is to find
> cases that will make it hard or impossible to use one of them. It
> should be easy to choose which method to use, not hard to figure out
> which one not to use.

OK, here you go:
* Use send when you want to invoke a method, but you have a variable
holding the name of a method.
* Use instance_eval when you want to muck about with the internals of an
object.