safe_constantize

safe_constantize()

Instance Public methods

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

'Module'.safe_constantize  # => Module
'Class'.safe_constantize   # => Class
'blargle'.safe_constantize # => nil

Links:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/aa0e1fac3e2988710f799795eaae2a06202540c6/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb#L76

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2015-06-20 00:00:00

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