From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-02T04:57:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic Variables

Igal Koshevoy wrote:
> I suppose if I really want to pretend like I was dynamically injecting a 
> local variable into a local scope, and a class/instance variable didn't 
> weren't desirable, then I could resort to:
> 
> def set(name, value)
>  self.class.send(:attr_accessor, name)
>  self.send("#{name}=", value)
> end
> 
> counter = 52
> set "box#{counter}", "cat and dogs"
> p box52 # => "cat and dogs"

Yup, that would work except that for an attr_accessor on self you need 
to qualify it with self.box52...so it wouldn't be quite seamless.

- Charlie