class_name = 'Question'
instance = which_method(class_name)
Which method I should use?
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A:
class_name = 'Question'
klass = Kernel.const_get class_name # klass holds the class Question, which is an object
instance = klass.new
Chubas
2010-06-21 06:32:45
short and sweet!
Bragboy
2010-06-21 06:35:16
@Chubas, thank you!
Freewind
2010-06-21 07:00:02
You don't need the `to_sym`. `const_get` also accepts a string.
sepp2k
2010-06-21 10:37:25
Totally right. For some reason I remembered it only accepted a sym. RDoc is misleading in that aspect (Module#const_get). Thanks for the clarification
Chubas
2010-06-21 14:12:59