From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-11-22T05:33:56+09:00
Subject: Re: get constant value by using string?

On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:28 PM, Jamal Soueidan wrote:

> class MyClass
>  ANYTHING = "huh"
> end
>
> How can I print out huh from string?
>
> MyClass::"anything".upcase
>
> Is there any way to do that ?
>
> :)

Sure, for example:

   MyClass.module_eval("ANYTHING")
   MyClass.const_get("ANYTHING")

In Rails you also have:

   "MyClass::ANYTHING".constantize

-- fxn