From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-03-16T01:07:40+09:00
Subject: Re: has 'ping' been dropped from 1.9.1?

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:12:24 -0500, Michael Linfield wrote:

>>  require 'ping'
>> LoadError: no such file to load -- ping
>>         from (irb):1:in `require'
>>         from (irb):1
>> 
>> 
> if you desperately need it (though yes it seems it wasn't included in
> the source package) just move it over from 1.8 or download it
> separately.
> 
> mv /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ping.rb /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/
> 
> Not the best solution but work with wut yuh got!
> 
> - Mac

That's a horrible idea. If the 1.8 version works, include it in your 
project, but don't go modifying your standard library.



-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/