From: Ronald Fischer Date: 2007-08-22T17:15:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Date and DateTime on the Mac > > 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). > 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. I wonder whether this is really the "official" definition of Ruby that date.rb must be required explicitly. On Linux, it isn't necessary either, and at least the Ruby books I have access to ("The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton and "The Ruby Cookbook" by Richardson and Carlson) don't mention a require 'date' when discussing the Date and DateTime classes... Ronald -- Ronald Fischer Phone: +49-89-452133-162