From: Paul Carvalho <tester.paul@...>
Date: 2009-03-14T06:47:52+09:00
Subject: Re: When was the parse method added to the Time class?

Joel wrote:

> It's not a ruby version issue.
>
> Confusingly, Time.parse is only available after explicitly requiring 'time':
>
> irb(main):001:0> Time.parse "1:23"
> NoMethodError: undefined method `parse' for Time:Class
>          from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0> require 'time'
> => true
> irb(main):003:0> Time.parse "1:23"
> => Fri Mar 13 01:23:00 -0700 2009
>

Hmm, okay.  I get that.  So why does the "Time.methods.include?
'parse'" line work on all the other systems except for one?  I'm not
specifically requiring that class on the other machines.

As a test, I uninstalled Ruby 184 and installed Ruby 186 and I get the
same effect on this computer -- i.e. the Time.parse method is still
not there by default.  Weird.  Could another Ruby gem be causing the
problem?

Paul.