From: Paul Duncan <pabs@...>
Date: 2002-12-27T06:38:54+09:00
Subject: Re: String#to_class?


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* Tim Bates (tim@bates.id.au) wrote:
> I have a class being used in a unit test:
>=20
> TC_Foo
>=20
> I match it against a regexp:
>=20
> /TC_(.*)/.match(self.class.name)
>=20
> I end up with a string ($1 =3D=3D "Foo") which I want to be an instance o=
f Class=20
> (=3D=3D Foo). How can I convert a String to a Class? Will I have to use=
=20
> ObjectSpace to find a Class whose Class#name =3D=3D "Foo"?


Hey,

I wrote a String#to_class implementation using const_get for my friend a
few months back.  Check out
http://www.pablotron.org/download/string_to_class.rb (there's test code
and examples included in the file).


> Tim Bates
> --=20
> tim@bates.id.au
>=20

--=20
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