From: James Somers <jemburula@...>
Date: 2009-10-09T09:39:28+09:00
Subject: String of Parameters used as parameter list

Hi there,

I know this might sound unorthodox but I am storing a function and
parameters in a database for a particular set of class methods. Most of
the functions have the same arguments but a few others have extra
parameters after.

So instead of having a separate column for each parameter I am instead
putting all the parameters in a single database column which I want to
pass so I would like to do something like this:

class Klass
  def self.some_function(age, weight, name); end
end

function_name = "some_function"
function_args = "12, 14, 'james'"
Klass.send function_name, function_args

Is there any way to do this? I have looked at things like *args but I
would really like to keep the signature of the function the same because
it'd require a lot of refactoring otherwise.

Cheers,
James
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