From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-10-31T04:57:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically reference instance vars


On Oct 30, 2010, at 12:27 , Greg Willits wrote:

> I was hoping in Ruby that at least this was possible:
> 
>  myobject.send(iname) = ivalue
>  --or--
>  myobject.send(iname, ivalue)

You're confusing methods and variables. They're not the same, but you're on the right track with the code above, but you'd be calling the getter, not the setter. Check it:

class X
  attr_accessor :x # creates x and x= methods
end

o = X.new
o.send("x=", 42)
p x