From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-12-04T08:08:14+09:00
Subject: Re: cast object to object

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On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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)
>
>
Here is a link
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb#L89-128



If you wish to use it, you can copy it and any other methods it depends on,
or you can use the gem itself:

require 'active_support'
"FireWatir::Link".constantize # => FireWatir::Link

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