On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Rob Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Its worth noting that Kevin's method is Ruby, where constantize is Rails
> sugar.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
Also, I think constantize is implemented like this:
class String
def constantize
self.split("::").inject(Object) do |enclosing_class, name_segment|
enclosing_class.const_get(name_segment)
end
end
end
(atleast that's how I'd implement it)
So it actually takes strings that may have namespacing and grabs the
constant properly. Pure `const_get` can't do that.
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