------ art_77181_25741663.1153235313050 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline What I understand from require statement is that the argument to it is a file, where as include requires module/class name. But once I do a require for a specific ruby file which has various modules and classes, doesn't these classes/modules get included automatically? infact they do get automatically as I have tried doing so. But in various files of ruby library I found that people use include "modulename" after a require statement for the file which contains that module. Any reasons? Thanks, Jatinder ------ art_77181_25741663.1153235313050--