two Date classes?

[Mark Volkmann]

It seems that there is a Date class in the core library and the
standard library. Is this correct? The following code

---

core = Date.methods.sort

require 'date'
std = Date.methods.sort

puts "methods in std Date that aren't in core Date"
puts std - core

---

outputs lots of method names.

Pickaxe doesn't document a Date class in the core libraries.
Does anybody know why there are two classes named Date in the standard
Ruby distribution?

 

[Logan Capaldo]

It seems that there is a Date class in the core library and the
standard library. Is this correct? The following code

---

core = Date.methods.sort

require 'date'
std = Date.methods.sort

puts "methods in std Date that aren't in core Date"
puts std - core

---

outputs lots of method names.

Pickaxe doesn't document a Date class in the core libraries.
Does anybody know why there are two classes named Date in the standard
Ruby distribution?

There aren't. If you have rubygems in your RUBYOPT (or similiar) it
pulls in time.rb which adds some methods to the Date class (and
changes it's behavior slightly). This could be what you are seeing.