Hi David,

On 10 Apr 2011, at 04:37, David Kahn 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}'")

Assuming you have attribute writers defined for your attributes:

background_process_status.send("#{key}=", value)

would be better, I think.

Regards,

Tony.

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