From: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T23:41:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic Class Initialization

Hi Peer,
 
On Friday, June 15, 2007, at 04:36PM, "Peer Allan" <peer@canadadrugs.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I know this can be done, but I can't find out how to do it.  I have a
>string with the name of the class that I want to initialize, but how do
>I do it?
>
>This is what I tried,
>
>class = "Product"
>product = class.new
>
>Obviously this does not work or I wouldn't be asking :)  So, how do I do
>this?
>
>Peer

Try this:

clazz = Object.const_get("Product")
product = clazz.new

The word class is a reserved word so yu should use something different...

Cheers,

Enrique