From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-11T06:52:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom for dynamic loading of an unknown class from a known file

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Nasir Khan wrote:

> I need to load a class at runtime, whose name I do not know in advance, but
> all I know is a file name.
> Say "a.rb" which is
>
>
> class A
> ......
> end
>
> So I want to do something like  (pseudo code)
> - load a.rb  (this will create the class object for A)
> - Somehow access constant "A" and invoke "A.new"
>
> I can think of a few hacks but none of them are elegant.
> Is there an idiom for it?
>
>

dynaload does __exactly__ this.

gem install dynaload

-a
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