From: David Naseby <david.naseby@...>
Date: 2004-03-01T13:47:19+09:00
Subject: Re: turn hash into object variables?

>From: Ruby Baby [mailto:ruby@hitmedia.com]
>I know beautiful Ruby has an easier way to do this:
>
>
>class SomeClass
>	def initialize(someHash)
>		@name = someHash['name']
>		@address = someHash['address']
>		@blah = someHash['blah']
>		# etc for many key=>value pairs ...
>	end
>end
>
>
>How can I make it do that for every key in the hash?
>

class SomeClass
  def initialize( h )
    h.each do | key, val | 
      instance_variable_set( "@#{key}".intern, val )
    end
  end
end

David Naseby
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~naseby/