On Apr 9, 11:37 pm, David Kahn <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a different way to do such an eval? In actuality what I am doing > with this phrase is to assign hash params to the attributes of a class: > > eval("background_process_status.#{key.to_s}='#{value}'")
I'd *highly* recommend that you not do this. Using send is not only more efficient, it's far safer - for instance, what happens if somebody sends your code a value like '; `rm -rf *`;' This will be syntactically valid, and will make quite a mess... --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
