constantize() public

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

Examples

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