From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2003-05-11T18:52:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Where can I find doc on Ruby library?

Robo wrote:
> 
> I looked through my windows installation of Ruby, in the lib dir, there're a
> bunch of Ruby lib files, but I can't seem to find any documentation for
> them.
> 
> http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/index.html
> 
> doesn't have docs for those classes.

That reference is just the built-in classes and modules, so they aren't
supposed to be documented there. You want documentation for the standard
library. Go to
  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/index.html
and click in on "Standard Library"
  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_standard.html

> In particular, I'm hoping to find some sort of Date object, that I can feed
> in a date/time say "3:25 am", and tell it to return it in a suitable format.
> In PHP I would use a combination of strtotime() and date()
> 
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
> 
> I think Date/ParseDate does something similar, but I dunno how to use them.

See above.

> Also, looking for some instructions on how to use the http/ftp classes under
> the net folder.

And those would be documented in another chapter of the Pickaxe,
"Network and Web Libraries":
  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_network.html

HTH

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