From: mike.cahill@...
Date: 2007-05-23T04:13:49+09:00
Subject: string -> symbol

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ok - i'm officially an idiot.

i want to dynamically alias the names of all methods in a module... i need to string-manipulate the original method name to get the new one.  alias_method only takes symbol names and the only tricks i know to convert strings to symbols (i.e., method("this_func") and SomeClass.method_eval("this_func) don't apply.  

  my_module.instance_modules.each{ |m|
     m_new_name = <string stuff on m>
     alias_method <what goes here?> <and what goes here?>


more generally, is there some easy way to convert strings to symbols that i've missed?

thanks
m
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