From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-07-09T05:41:33+09:00
Subject: Re: require 'socket' returns false in windows?

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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