From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T14:11:16+09:00
Subject: Re: NameError: uninitialized constant Date::ABBR_MONTHS

On 11 Apr 2007, at 13:26, Jigar Gosar wrote:

> DATE::ABBR_MONTHS exists in this doc here.
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html
> Still I get the error.
>
>> ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
>
>
> irb(main):001:0> require "date"
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> Date::MONTHNAMES
> => [nil, "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",  
> "July",
> "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]
> irb(main):003:0> DATE::ABBR_MONTHS
> NameError: uninitialized constant DATE
>         from (irb):3
> irb(main):004:0>
>
>
>
> DATE::ABBR_MONTHS exists in this doc here.
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html
>
> And I was using this functionality till ruby 1.8.2 it suddenly stoped
> with the upgrade. can these guys just remove stuff without  
> warning!!! or
> am I looking at wrong place?
>
> Please help
>

The hint is here:

> NameError: uninitialized constant DATE
>         from (irb):3

Try 'Date::ABBR_MONTHS'

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University