I’m almost embarrassed to ask this, because I’m bound to be pointed to
some
code that I’ve almost certainly read already, but here goes my ruby
newbie
question:
I have an incoming stream of data in separated chunks, each having a
beginning word that defines that chunk’s place in the world (how it will
respond to #to_s, etc). Currently, I model each chunk as an object;
each
has its own class. Basically, I’m unserializing object data, but I
provide
the object functionality. I want to do off-the-stream object creation,
and
so I’ve went and done something like:
instance_eval( “#{class_name_from_stream_chunk}.new(
data_from_stream_chunk
)” )
Is this the only way to do this (by “way”, I mean the code and also the
manner), and if not, the best way?