From: Nasir Khan <rubylearner@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T09:03:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Find the fully qualified name of a class from a string

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> I don't think that's what he's looking for.


Thank you.

He has a string containing Ruby source code which presumably defines a
> class (or classes?) which might be contained within a module. He
> want's to find the fully qualified name of this unknown class (or
> classes?).


Yes.

The A::B is really just an example.
>
> WHY he wants to do this is beyond me.


Huh!  Then ask me.

Anyway, there could be several uses for such a thing. Simplest use case
would be a RAILS like (but not RAILS) situation where a controller is
deployed on a running server which (controller) optionally comes as a string
enveloped in a protocol message, this string is evaled and the controller is
instatiated but the system also needs to maintain meta information including
the name of the controller just deployed, which defaults to the fully
qualified name of the class.
My use case is similar.

- Nasir


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