From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-04-29T00:47:14+09:00
Subject: Re: creating and naming variables dynamic

Hi --

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Tarscher wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to create a variable dynamic. I have defined some classes and
> depending on data I get from a database I need to construct an object
> eg:
>
> now I do
>
> if type=="car"
>  variab = Car.new
> elsif type="boat"
>  variab = Boat.new
> end
>
> can I do something like
> variab = Instance.new(type)
>
>
> Following this: can I give dynamic variablenames?
> now I do
> if type=="car"
>  car_string = Car.new
> elsif type="boat"
>  boat_string = Boat.new
> end
>
> can I do something like
> dynamicpart_string = Instance.new(type)

Fred Cheung has answered this post for you on the Rails mailing list.


David

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