From: John Barnette <jbarnette@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T07:33:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Typecast

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Sijo Kg <sijo@maxxion.com> wrote:
>    I have an ActiveRecord class ServiceDesk  and a string "ServiceDesk"
>  .How can I convert the string "ServiceDesk" to create a new object of
>  the class ServiceDesk?

Since you're working with Rails and therefore ActiveSupport, you can do:

"ServiceDesk".constantize.new


~ j.