How does one refer to a tk special variable in Ruby? In Perl, it is $Tk::<variable>. What tk special variables are available in Ruby? I'm referring to variables like patchLevel, strictMotif, VERSION and version. In /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb, I found TCL_VERSION, TCL_PATCHLEVEL, TCL_MAJOR_VERSION, TCL_MINOR_VERSION, TK_VERSION, TK_PATCHLEVEL, TK_MAJOR_VERSION, TK_MINOR_VERSION and JAPANIZED_TK. This may be what I'm looking for, but these are constants, not variables. When I try to refer to them (in irb), but after saying require 'tk' I have tried as many different ways as I can... puts tk::TK_VERSION puts TK_VERSION puts TK::TK_VERSION -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.