sounds like your install is messed up:

Mini:~ kev$ irb
irb(main):001:0>  require 'date'
=>  true

On 6/30/06, dave rose <bitdoger2@[...].com>  wrote:
>  i get a lot of errors when i require 'date' in irb what's wrong
>  => ["c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8",
>  "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-ms
>  t", "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby", "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8",
>  "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1
>  i386-mswin32", "."]
>  irb(main):003:0> require 'c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb'
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:238: warning: already initialized constant
>  MONTH
>  ES
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:243: warning: already initialized constant
>  DAYNA
> 
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:247: warning: already initialized constant
>  ABBR_
>  THNAMES
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:250: warning: already initialized constant
>  ABBR_
>  NAMES
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:254: warning: already initialized constant
>  ITALY
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:258: warning: already initialized constant
>  ENGLA
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:262: warning: already initialized constant
>  JULIA
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:266: warning: already initialized constant
>  GREGO
>  N
>  NameError: undefined method `today' for `DateTime'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:1261:in `undef_method'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:1261
>          from
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
>  quire__'
>          from
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
>  quire'
> 
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