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Js Equivalent of Ruby send method

js equivalent of ruby send method

Engineering Manager · Product Owner · Varicon

Mar 17, 2016·1 min read

Do you remember we talked about ruby’s send method [here]({{ site.url }}/using-send-method-in-ruby-to-refactor-conditional/). It is used to call a ruby function from string having same value as function name.

There is js equivalent of the same:

// defining the function
var apple = function(){
	console.log('apple');
}
 
eval('apple()') // => apple

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Prakash Poudel Sharma

Engineering Manager · Product Owner · Varicon

Engineering Manager at Varicon, leading the Onboarding squad as Product Owner. Eleven years of building software — first as a programmer, then as a founder, now sharpening the product craft from the inside of a focused team.

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