From: Farrel Lifson <flifson@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T17:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: singleton methods with variable method names


> obj = Object.new
> methodName = 'foo'
> methodDef = "def obj.#{methodName}; puts 'in my method'; end"
> eval(methodDef) # to add the method foo to the object obj
> obj.foo # to invoke it

To be even more dynamic you can change 

obj.foo

to

obj.send('foo')

Farrel
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