From: "Skye Shaw!@#$" <skye.shaw@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T13:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Regarding Constants

On Jul 24, 1:21 pm, Harnish Botadra <harnish_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having some difficulty in the use of constants in Ruby.  I've a
> module:
>
> eg.
> -------------------
> Module Constants

Use lowercase "m"

> I include this module in my model.  Further, the name of the constant
> (MY_CONST) would be passed in a variable say 'var'.  My question, is how
> do I access the value of the constant from the constant name in 'var'?

module Constants
GRR="burr!"
end

class Bs
   include Constants

   def self.get_constant(name)
        self.const_get(name.to_sym)
   end
end

p Bs.get_constant("GRR")


Why do you need to access constants this way?