From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T02:59:39+09:00
Subject: Re: two Date classes?

Simple exercise on my machine ...

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-linux]

$ ruby -e 'puts Date.methods(false).sort'
-e:1: uninitialized constant Date (NameError)

$ ruby -r date -e 'Date.methods(false).sort'
_load
_parse
_strptime
ajd_to_amjd
ajd_to_jd
amjd_to_ajd
<snip>

What version of ruby are you running?
Might you have included Date in an .irbrc file or some other piece of code?

Blessings,
Tim Pease

On 7/10/06, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that there is a Date class in the core library and the
> standard library. Is this correct?  The following code
>
> ---
>
> core = Date.methods.sort
>
> require 'date'
> std = Date.methods.sort
>
> puts "methods in std Date that aren't in core Date"
> puts std - core
>
> ---
>
> outputs lots of method names.
>
> Pickaxe doesn't document a Date class in the core libraries.
> Does anybody know why there are two classes named Date in the standard
> Ruby distribution?
>
> --
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.
>
>