From: Robin Stocker <robin@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T08:31:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question about arrays.

Gautam Dey wrote:
>   So I was going through the Ruby array documentation and came across 
> Array. abbrev(pattern = nil). However, every time I run the example code 
> in irb I get the following:
> 
> rb(main):001:0> %w{ car cone }.abbrev
> NoMethodError: undefined method `abbrev' for ["car", "cone"]:Array
>         from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0>
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Do I need to include a module? If so, how? 

Yes, you need to do require 'abbrev'.

It should be mentioned in the documentation, but it is not. I think 
Gavin Sinclair is the one to contact in this case, so this mail is CC to 
him.

Gavin, could you add a note to lib/abbrev.rb, something like:
You need to require the abbrev module in order to use this functionality.

Thanks,
   Robin