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

Given:

class Banana
end

You can fetch the class in plain Ruby with:

Object.const_get 'Banana'
=> Banana

or if you're using Rails:

'Banana'.constantize
=> Banana