From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-04-06T22:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: what's wrong with these?

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:19:04 -0500, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:03:09 +0900,
> Michael Malone wrote in [ruby-talk:333071]:
>> > 2:
>> > puts Dir.tmpdir
>> > Dir.mktmpdir { |i|  puts i }
>> > -- it says 'undefined
>> As for "undefined method" you're quite right, I can't find Dir#tmpdir
>> defined anywhere either, and yet it's in the docs...what's the deal
>> guys?
> 
> require 'tmpdir'

Yeah. The core rdoc on http://www.ruby-doc.org/ has a pitfall that it 
includes the standard libraries as well. (Nobody separated out the 
standard libraries from that.)

If you want to know what's in the core, getting a copy of PickAxe is a 
better bet.

--Ken

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/