From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-07-02T20:37:07+09:00
Subject: Re: why 1.hour doesn't work?

Hi --

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Kenneth wrote:

> this is a newbie question:
>
> so if it is in Ruby on Rails, then 1.hour   and  1.hour.from_now  both
> work....
> now then, how come in irb, they both don't work?

Because they're defined in a Rails library, not in the Ruby language.


David

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