I'm doing some metaprogramming in Ruby, and I need to dynamically generate a sibling class inside of a module. In doing so, I want to call const_set on the module, but I don't know which Module constant to call that on until runtime. An example:
Given classes
Foo::Bar::BazFoo::Quox::Quack
I want to be able to call a function like this (oversimplified here):
def generate_from klass mod = klass.enclosing_module # <- THIS LINE is the one I need to figure out mod.const_set("GeneratedClassName", Class.new)end
and what I want to end up with, when calling with Baz
, is a new class defined as
Foo::Bar::GeneratedClassName
and with a Quack, I want
Foo::Quox::GeneratedClassName
The only way I know of is to split up klass.name, then repeatedly call const_get on those strings, constantized. Does anyone know of a more elegant way?