From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T21:09:16+09:00
Subject: Re: binding - how to get current script?

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:18:18 +0200, Szymon Drejewicz wrote:

> 
>> A local variable created in eval is only visible in eval.
> 
> :'-(
> 
> so there is no way to do something like:
> 
>         eval("name = 'Alice'", MAIN_BINDING)
>         puts name
> 

There is :-)
You can use Kernel#binding to get the current binding,
and pass it to eval:

irb(main):001:0> eval("name = 'Alice'", binding())
=> "Alice"
irb(main):002:0> name
=> "Alice"