From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T21:57:47+09:00
Subject: Re: why 1.hour doesn't work?

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This is why I always stress that people should learn Ruby first before
moving on to Rails. Rails does so much to the Ruby stdlib that it's very
difficult to get a grasp on things if you're new to both.

Please read through this book to get you started on Ruby:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/

Jason

On 7/2/07, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Kenneth Ll wrote:
> >> % irb
> >> irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
> >> => false
> >> irb(main):002:0> require 'active_support'
> >> => true
> >> irb(main):003:0> 1.hour
> >> => 3600
> >>
> >
> > both are needed huh?  is there a way just to include one module?  (such
> > as when including 1 and it detects it lacks the other one, then it will
> > include the other one too).
> >
> > so i think the other way
> >
> > ruby script/console
> >
> > will work too huh?  (my ruby was set up with rails last time but right
> > now it doesn't have the PATH to do things any more...)
> >
> >
> Typically you do something external to Ruby to ensure that rubygems is
> always loaded. Then you can stop worrying about it. The easiest thing to
> do is set the RUBYOPTS environment variable to the value "rubygems". How
> you set the variable depends on the shell you're using. If you're using
> bash, for example, do this:
>
> export RUBYOPTS=rubygems
>
> If you're using another shell there will be a slightly different command.
>
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