From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-04-28T08:18:07+09:00
Subject: RE: string to class?

You can always do:

str = "Array"
aclass = eval(str)
a = aclass.new

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hall [mailto:mghall@enteract.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 6:21 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Q: string to class?
> 
> I've got a string, and I'd like to get a class reference.
> It's probably easy; I just haven't found the right methods yet.
> 
> Example:
> 	# given 'Array' string, make a new Array
> 	str = "Array"
> 	aclass = something_or_other(str)
> 	a = aclass.new
> 
> I can turn it into a symbol, and back to a string,
> and have thought about 'send'ing a 'class' message,
> but there's still a big chasm between me
> and the desired result!  :-)
> 
> Any clues?
> Thanks!
> --
> Mike Hall