Form helpers-style get instance variable from a symbol

Rails
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Does anyone know what Ruby magic functions you use to turn a Symbol like
:purchase into a valid instance variable @purchase?

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Hi –

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Bryan D. wrote:

Does anyone know what Ruby magic functions you use to turn a Symbol like
:purchase into a valid instance variable @purchase?

sym = :purchase
value = “whatever”

instance_variable_set(“@#{sym}”, value)

@purchase is now “whatever”

David

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