From: Dave Thomas Date: 2001-11-21T07:56:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:25956] Re: a quick question Tobias DiPasquale writes: > What's the difference between using '' and "" in require calls at the top > of Ruby files? I see a lot of intermingled usage, but can't find the > difference in the Pickaxe book. (aside from the difference between > resolution of the quoting characters) That's all there is to it. The parameter's a string object, which is normally a single or doubled quoted literal. However, you could do name = "TEKCOS" require name.reverse.downcase Regards Dave