From: Caius Durling <caius@...>
Date: 2010-12-29T08:39:37+09:00
Subject: Re: how do i run the function?

On 28 Dec 2010, at 23:37, Rick Tan wrote:

> If i want to run a function whose name is contained in a string,  how do
> I do that in Ruby?  or is this not feasible?
> 
> For example
> 
>  def a
>    puts "a"
>  end
> 
>  def b
>    puts "b"
>  end
> 
>  mymethod="a"
> 
> In the above code snippet, i like to run the function a by using the
> string mymethod.  What trick if any can i use in ruby to make this
> happen?


Object#send. http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html#M000332 (It'll take a string as well as a symbol.)

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