From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-24T11:16:46+09:00
Subject: Re: instantiate a class dynamically

On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:28 PM, F. Senault wrote:

> my_object = Object.const_get(my_string.to_sym).new
>
> (The to_sym is mandatory in ruby 1.9.)

Na.

   $ ruby_dev -ve 'p File.const_get("Stat")'
   ruby 1.9.1 (2008-12-30 patchlevel-0 revision 21203) [i386- 
darwin9.6.0]
   File::Stat

Ruby's a pretty smart gal.  ;)

James Edward Gray II