Get a class by name in Ruby?

Question

Having a string with the module and name of a class, like:

\"Admin::MetaDatasController\"

how do I get the actual class?

The follow

Answer 1

i could be way off-base, but wouldn't eval return the class?

eval("Admin::MetaDatasController")

so eval("Admin::MetaDatasController").new would be the same as Admin::MetaDatasController.new