From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-11-24T02:13:56+09:00
Subject: Re: More on psuedo arrays; Better way?

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote:
>> if you call send with the string, I don't know if a symbol
>> is created inside that call or not.
>
>>> Symbol.all_symbols.find { |x| x.to_s == "baz" }
> => nil
>>> send("baz")
> NoMethodError: undefined method `baz' for main:Object
>        from (irb):4:in `send'
>        from (irb):4
>        from :0
>>> Symbol.all_symbols.find { |x| x.to_s == "baz" }
> => :baz

Thanks !! I've also learnt about the all_symbols method, which is new to me :-)

Jesus.