Getting the name of a class that's in a module

‘some_object.class.to_s’ doesn’t work because it returns the entire
hierarchy,
i.e ‘SomeModule::SomeClass’. I could do some string ops on that but it
seems
there would be an easier way. Here’s an example:

class MenuStyle
class Button < Style
end
end

class View
def initialize()
@delegate = MenuStyle.const_get( self.class.to_s )
end
end

Thanks,
Mike

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Mike A. wrote:

def initialize()
@delegate = MenuStyle.const_get( self.class.to_s )
end
end

 harp:~ > cat a.rb
 #
 # creates a class by class name
 #
   def klass_stamp(hierachy, *a, &b)
     ancestors = hierachy.split(%r/::/)
     parent = Object
     while((child = ancestors.shift))
       klass = parent.const_get child
       parent = klass
     end
     klass::new(*a, &b)
   end

hth.

-a