From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-01T01:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: dynamic object creation

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:01:25AM +0900, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> If I have something like this:
> 
> s="Array"
> 
> How whould I get something like this:
> 
> aObject=s.new
> 
> In "plain" english I am asking if I have a valid name of a class in a
> string how do I create an instance of the class the string contains?

A class name is just a constant, so something like

   a = Module.const_get("Array").new

is what you need (Aside: what's the proper way to access 'the top-level
Module', or is the above correct?)

Cheers,

Brian.