From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T01:22:16+09:00
Subject: Re: creating objects using strings

>>>>> "G" == George Mochrie <geo@drasil.no-ip.org> writes:

G> Is it possible to create an object of a specific type when all I have is the 
G> name of the class in a string? 

 a class is stored in a constant, if you have its name you can retrieve the
 associated constant with #const_get

 For example

pigeon% ruby -e 'klass = "Array"; p Object.const_get(klass).new'
[]
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux