Joel VanderWerf
7/8/2008 8:42:00 PM
David Miller wrote:
> I have two windows computers that return false when the following
> statement is executed:
>
> require 'socket'
>
> Both computers are XP loaded with 1.8.6 via the one click installer. On
> one of the windows machines I am able to disable the firewall which
> makes no difference. The other windows machine does not have a local
> fire wall. I know that require is finding the file, because I get a
> completely different message if I require something that doesn't exist.
> I am wondering if this is an initialization error, or a false false.
>
> I also have a Linux machine. On my Linux Machine, the statement returns
> true as expected.
>
> What can I do to figure out what is causing this?
It just means that socket has already been loaded:
$ RUBYOPT="" ruby -e 'p require("socket"); p require("socket")'
true
false
(I had to clear RUBYOPT to show this because otherwise gems was
apparently loading socket.)
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