From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-12-21T18:06:35+09:00
Subject: Re: String#to_class?

Hi,

At Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:00:31 +0900,
Tim Bates wrote:
> I have a class being used in a unit test:
> 
> TC_Foo
> 
> I match it against a regexp:
> 
> /TC_(.*)/.match(self.class.name)
> 
> I end up with a string ($1 == "Foo") which I want to be an instance of Class 
> (== Foo). How can I convert a String to a Class? Will I have to use 
> ObjectSpace to find a Class whose Class#name == "Foo"?

  eval($1)

or

  Object.const_get($1)

-- 
Nobu Nakada