What is the ruby equivalent of python's getattr

Question

I am new to rails and trying to do a little refactoring (putting a partial renderer that lists titles in app/views/shared ) The renderer shows the dates along with the title

Answer 1

I think the answer to the original question is send:

irb(main):009:0> t = Time.new
=> Thu Jul 02 11:03:04 -0500 2009
irb(main):010:0> t.send('year')
=> 2009

send allows you to dynamically call an arbitrarily-named method on the object.