Ruby String to Class Name

Question

I am trying to create a new class to that will inherit from ActiveRecord::Base the class needs to be dynamically generated from a string

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Answer 1

If you're using Rails, it provides a method called #constantize that will work:

irb(main):017:0> Object.const_get 'House::Owns'
NameError: wrong constant name House::Owns

'House::Owns'.constantize
=> House::Owns