From: "Mariko C." <lessthaneloquent@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T16:50:49+09:00
Subject: Re: String to Object name?

Joshua Ballanco wrote:
> Meta-programming to the rescue!
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> 
> a = "aString"
> 
> eval(a + " = 5")
> 
> puts aString


Hi Joshua. I tried this through irb and it works fine, but it gives me 
an "undefined local variable" error through Ruby on Rails. Any idea how 
to get this to work?
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