I'm just wondering about the Ruby way of instantiating a class when the
class name is in a string?

For example:

def build_classname
  # reality is a bit more complex...
  "Foo" + "Builder"
end
class_name = build_classname

Then I want to instantiate an instance based on class_name, ie the
equivalent of:

obj = FooBuilder.new
# obj = class_name.new XX FAIL

Google isn't helping - ruby + classname + instantiate + string brings up
all sorts of random stuff :-) I was thinking of doing some eval
awfulness, but there's got to be a Ruby way...

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Sonia Hamilton

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