constantize

constantize()

Instance Public methods

constantize tries to find a declared constant with the name specified in the string. It raises a NameError when the name is not in CamelCase or is not initialized. See ActiveSupport::Inflector#constantize

'Module'.constantize  # => Module
'Class'.constantize   # => Class
'blargle'.constantize # => NameError: wrong constant name blargle

Links:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/aa0e1fac3e2988710f799795eaae2a06202540c6/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb#L65

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2015-06-20 00:00:00

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