# Loading ftools.rb automatically

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loading-ftools-rb-automatically/143267>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 16, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loading-ftools-rb-automatically/143267 "2008-07-16T21:42:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loading-ftools-rb-automatically/143267/1 "2008-07-16T21:42:54Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loading-ftools-rb-automatically/143267/2 "2008-07-17T07:51:56Z")

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Hi,

At Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:35:13 +0900,  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote in [ruby-talk:308363]:

> 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.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loading-ftools-rb-automatically/143267/3 "2008-07-17T22:44:30Z")

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

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loading-ftools-rb-automatically/143267/4 "2008-07-18T01:55:51Z")

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On Jul 17, 2008, at 13:35 PM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> > No such patch has been incorporated. And ftools.rb had been  
> > obsolete.
> 
> It is not obsolete, [http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/changes/ruby-187/lib/ftools.rb](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.