From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T06:01:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Instantiate different class based on variable contents

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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:40 PM, stephen O'D <stephen.odonnell@gmail.com>wrote:

> dispatch = {
>  'Foo' => Foo,
>  'Bar' => Bar
> }
>
> obj = dispatch[var].new(...)
>
> Is there another Ruby way to do this sort of thing?
>

Object.const_get(var).new(...)

or with ActiveSupport:

var.constantize.new(...)

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Tony Arcieri
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