From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-12-04T02:01:08+09:00
Subject: Re: cast object to object

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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

Or for a more robust solution which can also handle strings like
"Module::Class" have a look at the String#constantize method from
activesupport (part of Rails)


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