On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:23 PM, john peter wrote:

> Thanks! That worked. Not sure what was wrong with require_gem
>

Nothing is wrong with require_gem. It has an unfortunate name though.
It should really be called activate_gem or something similar.  
require_gem only actually require's the library if it uses  
autorequire, which is deprecated now.
require_gem is to select things like a given version of a gem, ie:
require_gem 'some_gem', '>= 1.0'
you still have to do the
require 'some_gem' line


> Michael Guterl <mguterl / gmail.com> wrote: I'm not sure why the  
> above doesn't work, but check below for a working
> version.
>
> powerbook:~ michaelguterl$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> require 'active_support'
> => true
> irb(main):003:0> Time.now + 2.days
> => Sun Apr 02 16:16:22 EDT 2006
> irb(main):004:0>
>
>
> On 3/31/06, john peter  wrote:
>>
>>    i'm using ruby 1.8.2, rubygem 0.8.10, rails 1.0.0 where  
>> activesupport
>> version = 1.2.5
>>
>> when i try to run this in RADRail, i get a NoMethodError:
>>
>> require 'rubygems'
>> require_gem "activesupport"
>>
>> print Time.now + 2.days
>>
>> the error message is: c:/e312workspace/first/test3.rb:5: undefined  
>> method
>> `days' for 2:Fixnum (NoMethodError)
>>
>> is there a way to use the numeric/time core_ext in a plain ruby  
>> app? if
>> so, how?
>> thanks for any help!
>>
>>
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