From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-12-04T01:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: cast object to object

On 12/03/2010 04:44 PM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, David E.<davidreynon@gmail.com>  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()
>
> So, you want to do something like:
> name_of_my_class.gets

I don't think so.

> name_of_my_class.to_class  # Create a class out of the user input

That sounds more like it.

David, you could do

class_name = ... # fetch the name from somewhere
dave = Object.const_get(class_name).new

Kind regards

	robert