From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T04:35:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol usage help

ahoward wrote:
> 
> rubyists-
> 
> given
> 
>   a = 42
>   b = 'forty-two'
> 
> is it possible to do something like :
> 
>   %w( a b ).each do |s|
>     puts "#{s} = #{s.intern.value}"
>   end
> 
> to output
> 
>   a = 42
>   b = forty-two
> 
> obviously, the Symbol#value method does not exist, but this should be clear
> enough...

Instead of

   s.intern.value

Try

   eval s

or

   eval s.intern.to_s