From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T06:29:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Date and DateTime on the Mac


On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

> On 8/20/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It is part of the Ruby 'standard library' but you do still need to
>> require a library before using it.
>
> Is this platform dependent? 'require' doesn't seem to be, er, required
> on my SuSE system --
>
> hassan@ceylon:~> ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux]
> hassan@ceylon:~> irb
> irb(main):001:0> DateTime.now.to_s
> => "2007-08-20T14:14:31-07:00"
> irb(main):002:0>

Be careful with irb.  It has its own set of startup rules and  
behaviors that
are slightly different than Ruby itself.  Try:

ruby -e 'puts DateTime.now.to_s'

Ruby's startup behaviour can also be changed if the RUBYOPT environment
variable is set.

On my installation irb shows 451 classes defined at startup while the  
Ruby
interpreter just shows 147 classes.