From: Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
Date: 2004-01-19T03:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: setting instance variable "dynamically"

Thanks for the answers!

In my class I now use this :

	instance_eval("@#{row[1]}=Translation.new(row)")



Raph


Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:29:59AM +0900, Bauduin Raphael wrote:
> 
>>I saw in the pickaxe there's a way to call methods dynamically, with
>>send("method_name"):
>>
>>"test".send("length")  # 4
>>
>>What I want to do is set a variable this way. Is it possible?
> 
> 
>>>class A; end; a = A.new
> 
> => #<A:0x401ff0d8>
> 
>>>a.instance_variable_set :@foo, "foo"
> 
> => "foo"
> 
>>>a
> 
> => #<A:0x401ff0d8 @foo="foo">
> 
>>>a.instance_variable_get :@foo
> 
> => "foo"
>