From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T04:18:05+09:00
Subject: Re: string -> symbol

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:13:49AM +0900, mike.cahill@comcast.net wrote:
> 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?

"a_string".to_sym # => :a_string

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org