From: Alex Chaffee <alexch@...>
Date: 2012-06-26T00:39:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols and Strings.

As I understand it, interpolation is not eval, so you answered your own question (or at least included it).

:"#{name}.desc"

ymmv since my iPhone doesn't run ruby :-(


On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Michel Demazure <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Ryan Davis wrote in post #1065463:
>> On Jun 20, 2012, at 15:25 , Hal Fulton wrote:
>> 
>>>  (name.to_s << "=").to_sym
>> 
>> :"#{name}="
> 
> By the way :
> 
> In Sequel, you have to write something like '.order(:name.desc)' to ask 
> for a reverse ordering of a field. How, given the symbol :name, do you 
> build the symbol :name.desc, without some sort of 'eval' ?
> 
> _md
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