5.2. Creating Components on the Fly

You may encounter situations in which you want to use Mason's templating features and data management tools, but you don't want to create a full-blown component root hierarchy on disk to house your components. Perhaps you want to create a component from an isolated file or directly from a string containing the component text.

For these situations, the Mason interpreter provides the make_component( ) method. It accepts a comp_file or comp_source parameter (letting you create a component from a file or a string, respectively) and returns a Component object.