From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T07:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows https - Ruby 1.8.4

Doug Bromley wrote:
> Hello
> 
> This seems to be a problem with a number of people:
> http://www.codecomments.com/archive327-2006-3-848842.html
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/179201
> 
> Trying to connect to a https url using the 'net/http' I consistently get 
> the
> following error:
> ==> NoMethodError: undefined method `verify_mode'
> 
> The solutions above suggest rolling back to Ruby 1.8.2 but as I'm 
> wanting to
> use this on a webhost with 1.8.4 that isn't viable.
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this?
> 

I was having assorted issues with https-related code that had been 
working just fine not long ago.  After some Googling I came across a 
post that said that the 1.8.4 Windows installer was placing std-lib 
files into a different location than had the 1.8.2 installer.

I generally install new versions over the old, so installing 1.8.4 gave 
me a set-up with almost-duplicate files.

So, it appears, the wrong version of the https lib or one of its 
dependencies was tripping things up.

I went in and cleaned out the older files, and now life is good again.


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