From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T01:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Date and DateTime on the Mac


On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:

>
>> did you do a
>>
>>    require 'date'
>>
>> before trying to access Date or DateTime.  They are not part of
>> the Core classes that are automatically defined when Ruby starts up.
>
> OK, that solves it - but interestingly, a require 'date' is
> not necessary when running under Windows (both in the native and
> cygwin build of Ruby).
>
> Ronald
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> Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@venyon.com>
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>
That may mean it's loading all those libraries on windows even if you  
don't need them...
You might run a test to see if methods from various libraries are  
available.