From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-03-03T01:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: dynamic assignment of instance variables

Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk wrote:
> Wished we had something like "self.set(k, v)". Ruby ri version 1.8b
> does not seem to know of such a method, at least not of a method with
> such a name.
> 
> Is it possible to set instances variables without eval or string
> interpolation?

irb(main):001:0> class C; end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> c = C.new
=> #<C:0x4020434c>
irb(main):003:0> c.instance_variable_set(:@x, 1)
=> 1
irb(main):004:0> c
=> #<C:0x4020434c @x=1>