This comes up again and again. You might want to search the archives.
Short story: Ruby determines local variables at parse time. Although you
can bind values to local vars with eval you cannot access them outside of
eval because they are not known there:
14:44:40 [source]: ruby -e 'eval("x=10");p(eval("x"))'
10
14:44:46 [source]: ruby -e 'eval("x=10");p x'
-e:1: undefined local variable or method `x' for main:Object (NameError)
14:44:51 [source]: ruby -e 'x=nil;p x;eval("x=10");p x'
nil
10
Apart from that: your dynamic created variables will be of no use as the
method body cannot access them. The simplest solutions:
1) Access the hash instead of using local vars
2) Generate the complete method code
In any case: make sure you have default values so you can init variables
not defined in the hash. Otherwise you'll see the same error:
14:48:05 [source]: ruby -e 'def x(a) b + a end;x 10'
-e:1:in `x': undefined local variable or method `b' for main:Object
(NameError)
from -e:1
Kind regards
robert