From: Greg Donald <gdonald@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T08:19:23+09:00
Subject: Re: String to Object name?

On 3/3/08, Mariko C. <lessthaneloquent@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd like to change a string, for example, "something" and turn it into
>  an object reference. For example:
>
>  I have string "something," now I'd like to take that and turn it into
>
>  something = "some other string"
>
>  Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help.


I'm not sure how you'd do it otherwise, but using Rails I do it like this:

c = "foo".singularize.camelize.constantize
bar = c.new


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