From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T14:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: NameError: uninitialized constant Date::ABBR_MONTHS

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:26:00PM +0900, Jigar Gosar wrote:
> DATE::ABBR_MONTHS exists in this doc here.
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html

I don't see DATE::ABBR_MONTHS anywhere there. Can you point out *exactly*
what you clicked to see this? It's probably a typo, it obviously should be
Date::ABBR_MONTHS

> 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?

irb(main):001:0> require 'date'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Date::ABBR_MONTHS
=> {"oct"=>10, "jul"=>7, "jan"=>1, "dec"=>12, "jun"=>6, "apr"=>4, "feb"=>2,
"may"=>5, "sep"=>9, "aug"=>8, "mar"=>3, "nov"=>11}
irb(main):003:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.4"