From: Bernard Kenik <renard@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T03:19:07+09:00
Subject: Re: How to check if a webpage exists

Davide Benini wrote:
> Hi Axel,
> I work on Mac Os X Leopard. Ruby works allright, I have also a number of 
> rails websites running locally, no problems so far.
> Could you help me with the proper "script" sintax; I am sure the 
> rationale beyond the mechanism is correct, but I ultimately need to 
> integrate this script in a rails application, so I need to have it 
> woking in a common .rb file. As I said, tried this
> 
> require 'open-uri'
>  begin
>    open "www.does.not.exist.sdadasdas.com", :proxy=>true
>    p "i'm ok"   #<-- ok codes here
>  rescue => e
>   p "sorry can't do"
>   p "error is: #{e}"
> end
> 
> Simple as it seems, it does not work, I always end up with "i'm ok". I'm 
> sure it's some stupid syntactic glitch...
> Any suggestion?
> Davide

I relealize that that this may not solve your problem.
This above script works fine on my Mac


renard$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-darwin9.4.0]
renard$ which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
renard$


irb(main):001:0> require 'open-uri'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> begin
irb(main):003:1*   open "www.does.not.exist.sdadasdas.com", :proxy=>true
irb(main):004:1>   p "i'm ok"   #<-- ok codes here
irb(main):005:1> rescue => e
irb(main):006:1>  p "sorry can't do"
irb(main):007:1>  p "error is: #{e}"
irb(main):008:1> end
"sorry can't do"
"error is: can't convert Hash into String"
=> nil
irb(main):009:0>


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