UnknownRegionError fires incorrectly for non north-american regions

[rojoko]

I run into the following problem.
The first time when I use a region outside of north-america (eg. :de , :no, :el) in a Holidays Method (Holidays.on, Holidays.between) I get a UnknownRegionError, but firing the command a second time Holidays returns the
right value.

ruby-1.9.2-p290 :017 > g = Holidays.on('2011-1-1'.to_date, :el)
Holidays::UnknownRegionError: Holidays::UnknownRegionError
from /home/roland/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial/gems/holidays-1.0.3/lib/holidays.rb:308:in parse_regions' from /home/roland/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial/gems/holidays-1.0.3/lib/holidays.rb:279:inparse_options'
from /home/roland/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial/gems/holidays-1.0.3/lib/holidays.rb:103:in between' from /home/roland/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial/gems/holidays-1.0.3/lib/holidays.rb:66:inon'
from (irb):17
from /home/roland/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:44:in start' from /home/roland/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:instart'
from /home/roland/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands.rb:23:in <top (required)>' from script/rails:6:inrequire'
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ruby-1.9.2-p290 :018 > g = Holidays.on('2011-1-1'.to_date, :el)
=> [{:date=>Sat, 01 Jan 2011, :name=>"Πρωτοχρονιά", :regions=>[:el]}]

[alexdunae]

I just tried this and it seemed to work.

irb(main):001:0> require 'holidays'
irb(main):002:0> require 'active_support/core_ext/string/conversions'
irb(main):003:0> g = Holidays.on('2011-1-1'.to_date, :el)
=> [{:date=>#<Date: 2011-01-01 (4911125/2,0,2299161)>, :name=>"Πρωτοχρονιά", :regions=>[:el]}]

It's a super strange error. Are you able to try it outside of the Rails console (using irb) and let me know if you get the same results?

[rojoko]

It works with requiring 'holidays' and 'active_support/core_ext/string/conversions' . Thanks for your quick response.

[alexdunae]

Does it also work without active_support (e.g. using Date.parse instead of ''.to_date)? I want to make sure that there isn't some conflict somewhere.