From: Holger Biebinger <holger.biebinger@...>
Date: 2006-08-08T03:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange NoMethodError

On Aug 7, 2006, at 5:02 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Holger Biebinger wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> In the following test script (similar to pickaxe p. 700 ):
>>
>> require 'net/http'
>> require 'uri'
>>
>> def fetch (uri_str, limit=10)
>>    fail 'http redirect limit exceeded' if limit.zero?
>>    response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(uri_str))
>>    case response
>>    when Net::HTTPSuccess
>>      response
>>    when Net::HTTPRedirection
>>      fetch(response['location'], limit-1)
>>    else
>>      response.error!
>>    end
>> end
>>
>>
>> fetch('heise.de');
>          ^^^^^^^^
>          ^^^^^^^^
>
> this is not a uri.
>
> try
>
>   harp:~ > ruby -r uri -e'  p URI.parse("heise.de").host  '
>   nil
>
>   harp:~ > ruby -r uri -e'  p URI.parse("http://heise.de").host  '
>   "heise.de"
>
> regards.
>
> -a

Oh my god ... thank you vey much. You are right. I was a it confused  
because of the NoMethodError and I thought I had installed something  
wrongly. Thanks for your hint :)

best regards,
Holger