From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2010-12-04T00:46:11+09:00
Subject: Re: cast object to object

On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:39 AM, David E. wrote:

> Yeah maybe the string confused things. I don't want to even convert to 
> string.
> 
> The value in string is the "human name" of the class i want to convert 
> it to.
> 
> So i'm converting a string into an object of class type of the string 
> value.
> 
> So convert "Dave" into an object of type Dave()
> 
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> 


Use Ruby's reflectivity:

    obj = const_get(string).new

assuming #string has a value that's the exact name of the const you're trying to find.

Jason