From: Paganoni Date: 2009-04-01T22:14:42+09:00 Subject: Anything better than klass = eval("#{task_class}") Hi, well subject is self explanatory... Seems a bit to verbose for me but I don't know any other solution to convert a string containing a class name to a constant of that class name... Excepted rails way : task_class.camelize.constantize which is verbose too...