From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T00:53:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Replacement for eval?

> But can you explain me how I should use it?

Assuming I'm understanding what you want:

D:\temp>type test.rb
  class MyClass
    def do_this
      puts 'do_this called'
    end
  end

  c = MyClass.new
  methodNameReadFromXml = 'do_this'
  c.send(methodNameReadFromXml)

D:\temp>test.rb
do_this called

... otherwise you'd have to call eval:

D:\temp>type test.rb
  class MyClass
    def do_this
      puts 'do_this called'
    end
  end

  c = MyClass.new
  methodNameReadFromXml = 'do_this'
  eval("c.#{methodNameReadFromXml}")

D:\temp>test.rb
do_this called

Chris
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