From: stephen O'D <stephen.odonnell@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T07:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Instantiate different class based on variable contents

On Apr 8, 10:01 pm, Tony Arcieri <t...@medioh.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:40 PM, stephen O'D <stephen.odonn...@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(...)
>
> --
> Tony Arcieri
> medioh.com

Thanks, works perfectly!