From: Paganoni <noway@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T15:30:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Anything better than klass = eval("#{task_class}")

le 01/04/2009 16:47, Rob Biedenharn nous a dit:
> On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Paganoni <noway@fakenullvoid.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> 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...
>>>> Object.const_get("String")
>> => String
>>
> 
> Or dealing with things like Admin::User or Net::HTTP
> 
>    # from Jim Weirich (based on email correspondence)
>    def constantize(camel_cased_word)
>      camel_cased_word.
>        sub(/^::/,'').
>        split("::").
>        inject(Object) { |scope, name| scope.const_get(name) }
>    end
> 
> It may be more verbose, but it is much safer that plain 'ole eval()
> 

Okay, so nothing less verbose ;-) But thanks for all the answers...