From: shiva.brahma@... (Matteo Cavalleri)
Date: 2007-03-14T00:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML and ruby classes

Christian Surlykke <christian@surlykke.dk> wrote:

> 
> Object.const_get can convert a String to a constant, so if you do:
> 
>       Object.const_get(h[:class].to_s).new(h)
> 
> it should work, no matter if the hash comes from source or yaml

the idea was excellent but it seems it doens't work if the class I need
is defined in another class namespace, e.g.

irb(main):117:0> Object.const_get('CGI::Cookie')
NameError: wrong constant name CGI::Cookie

anyway thanks for the help

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