diff --git a/SWIG/CHANGES.current b/SWIG/CHANGES.current
index 9b8ca8e52..bce94a65a 100644
--- a/SWIG/CHANGES.current
+++ b/SWIG/CHANGES.current
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 Version 1.3.22 (in progress)
 ==================================
 
+05/14/2004: lyle
+            Added Kou's patch for the Ruby %import directive so that modules
+            with "nested" names are handled properly. Consider an interface
+            file foo.i that has this %module declaration at its top:
+
+                %module "misc::text::foo"
+
+            Now consider another interface file spam.i that imports foo.i:
+
+                %import foo.i
+            
+            Before this patch, this would result in the following code being
+            generated for spam_wrap.c:
+
+                rb_require("misc::text::foo");
+
+            With this patch, however, you'll get the correct path name
+            for the call to rb_require(), e.g.
+
+                rb_require("misc/text/foo");
+
+            See SourceForge Bug #928299.
+
 05/12/2004: wsfulton
             Patch for emitting directors when %feature("director") specified
             for a class with no virtual methods, but does have a virtual destructor.
diff --git a/SWIG/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx b/SWIG/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx
index cc3bf50fa..e3c7ce6ad 100644
--- a/SWIG/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx
+++ b/SWIG/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx
@@ -484,7 +484,25 @@ public:
   virtual int importDirective(Node *n) {
     String *modname = Getattr(n,"module");
     if (modname) {
-      Printf(f_init,"rb_require(\"%s\");\n", modname);
+      List *modules = Split(modname,':',INT_MAX);
+      if (modules && Len(modules) > 0) {
+        modname = NewString("");
+        String *last = NULL;
+        Iterator m = First(modules);
+        while (m.item) {
+          if (Len(m.item) > 0) {
+            if (last) {
+              Append(modname, "/");
+            }
+            Append(modname, m.item);
+            last = m.item;
+          }
+          m = Next(m);
+        }
+        Printf(f_init,"rb_require(\"%s\");\n", modname);
+        Delete(modname);
+      }
+      Delete(modules);
     }
     return Language::importDirective(n);
   }