Ruby Academy · Lesson

Using send and eval

Discover how to execute dynamic method calls and evaluate strings as Ruby code.

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Ruby provides powerful methods like send and eval to dynamically execute code.

These methods allow calling methods dynamically and evaluating Ruby expressions at runtime.

send allows calling methods dynamically by name.

It can invoke private and public methods.

class Person
  def greet
    'Hello!'
  end
end

p = Person.new
puts p.send(:greet)