From: corey konrad <0011@...>
Date: 2006-05-14T08:36:24+09:00
Subject: Re: win32api

oh ok thanks for the info, i jus started ruby like a week ago, but 
playing around with th e wind32api or doing shell stuff in linux are 
probably he first thing i am going to do to get more comfortable with 
programming. I think that it would make sence to play around with as 
many classes and methods as i can first before writing my own. Do you 
think that is a good plan?





Dave Burt wrote:
> corey konrad wrote:
>> oh ok thanks thats right because Win32API is a class so it has to be 
>> capatalized, kind of jumping ahead of myself there but i was just 
>> curious.
> 
> No, it's not a class, it's a required file. The case has to match method
> name Init_...
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'wIn32ApI'
> LoadError: 127: The specified procedure could not be found.   -
> Init_wIn32ApI
> 
> Most libraries use all lowercase. Another one that trips people up is
> "RMagick". "Win32API" is the only one with uppercase letters in the
> standard library, as you can see from the list at
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave


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