From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
Date: 2008-03-17T22:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Test for Internet Connection

Cory Cory <cg821105@ohio.edu> writes:

> Does anyone know a way to test to see if the computer is connected to
> the internet in Ruby?
>
> I wrote a Ruby program with WWW::Mechanize, but it completely hangs Ruby
> when my internet is turned off.  Because Ruby does not use system
> threading, there is no way to check for a timeout when WWW::Mechanizer
> freezes due to not having an internet connection.

       require 'ping'
       Ping.pingecho("google.com",10,80) # --> true or false

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