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I have something like this:

string = "Post"

I would like to convert the string to a class name literal. I use eval like this to convert the string:

eval(string) #=> Post

Being a javaScript developer I try to avoid eval. Is there a better way of doing this in Ruby? Or is using eval the preferred way of handling this?

Stratus3D
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You can try

class Post
end

Object.const_get("Post")

Which returns the Post class

MxLDevs
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Use Module.const_get

string = "Fixnum"
clazz = Object.const_get(string)
clazz.name # => "Fixnum"

If you are in a rails context, you can also use the `#constantize method on string

clazz = string.constantize # => Fixnum
Brian Samson
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