From: sy1234 <sy1234@...>
Date: 2007-07-15T13:32:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Contents of variable as variable name

Rob Kerfia said the following on 07/14/2007 11:10 PM:
> I know that sounds a bit crazy, but is there a way to do that?
>
>   
oh oh oh .. I asked this question and did a bit of experimentation a 
while back.

I found a blank spot in my wiki where I was supposed to have written it 
all down, but I guess I didn't get around to it.  I just found and 
dumped some notes in just now.. maybe something there will help inspire you:

http://jrandomhacker.info/Ruby_code_snippets/patching_strings_together_to_make_a_variable

if eval isn't appropriate, then this snippet might work:

@ab = "pass"
puts instance_variable_get("@#{"a" + "b"}")