From: coigner <coignerATgmail@...>
Date: 2008-03-08T01:24:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic class thingies? (Okay, not sure how to title this one)

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:11:43 -0500, Stefano Crocco wrote:

> Alle Friday 07 March 2008, coigner ha scritto:
>> Asking for ideas here but let me preface...
>>
<snip my long winded stuff>
> 
> You want Kernel.const_get. As the name suggests, it takes a string and
> returns the value of the constant with that name. For instance:
> 
> class C
> end
> 
> Kernel.const_get('C').new
> => #<C:0xb7c55064>
> 
> If your classes are defined top-level, that's all you need. If they're
> defined inside a module, you need to call const_get for that module:
> 
> module M
>   class C
>   end
> end
> 
> M.const_get('C').new
> 
> I hope this helps

Does and thanks. Though I'd already started getting it to work with eval. 
Which do you think is better? Or does it matter?