On Mar 25, 3:44 pm, PsiPro <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm looking to define dynamic classes, and in order to get them to
> play nicely with Rails I need them to behaving like a constantly
> defiend class.
>
> foo = Class.new
>
> Won't work AFAIK because
>
> foo.class == Class
Well that should always be true - classes should be instances of
class. You do end up with foo.name == nil which I have seen confusing
bits of rails
>
> If the new class is defined to a constant however it will work.
>
> Foo = Class.new
>
> So far the only way I know of to do this is to use eval.
>
> newclass = eval("Foo#{some_string} = Class.new")
>
> and then I can define new class as I see fit. However I do not want to
> use eval if I can help it. Can anyone make any suggestions?
Try const_set
Fred
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