From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T01:54:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25523] Re: Getting a class object from a string containg its name

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Lars Christensen wrote:

> Did I overlook some easy way to look up a symbol or string in the
> namespace of Classes?
> 
I kind of remember someone posting a good solution to this but I can't
remember it.

One safe solution is to traverse from classes found in Object.constants
but I'm unsure of the performance.

/Robert