Loading ftools.rb automatically

[bparanj]

I have Ruby 1.8.5 patch-level xyz and Ruby 1.8.5 with no patch-level
on two different machines. The newer version of Ruby that has the
patch info autoloads ftools.rb automatically where as the older
version of Ruby does not. My question : Is there a way for me to load
the ftools.rb automatically in the older version of Ruby? TIA.

 

[Nobuyoshi Nakada]

Hi,

At Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:35:13 +0900,

I have Ruby 1.8.5 patch-level xyz and Ruby 1.8.5 with no patch-level
on two different machines. The newer version of Ruby that has the
patch info autoloads ftools.rb automatically where as the older
version of Ruby does not. My question : Is there a way for me to load
the ftools.rb automatically in the older version of Ruby? TIA.

No such patch has been incorporated. And ftools.rb had been
obsolete.

 

[bparanj]

It is not obsolete, http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/changes/ruby-187/lib/ftools.rb

It is still in Ruby 1.8.7. Am I missing something here?

 

[Eric Hodel]

It is not obsolete, http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/changes/ruby-187/lib/ftools.rb

It is still in Ruby 1.8.7. Am I missing something here?

It is removed in ruby 1.9. It cannot be removed in 1.8 as old
programs depend on it.