From: "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...>
Date: 2009-03-30T03:52:00+09:00
Subject: [OT] Shoes, Gems, Oh, My!

I'll ask this question that I asked on stackoverflow (to a resounding  
silence). I'm sure someone here knows the answer. I'm not completely  
grokking how Shoes handles gems and, more importantly, what the  
lifetime of objects should be in Shoes. Here was the question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/691968/shoes-and-gems

In a nutshell, I do this in my Shoes.setup (extracting to inline code  
for the purposes of simplicity)

Shoes.setup do
   require 'xmlrpc/client'

   secure = true
   @server = XMLRPC::Client.new((secure) ? MWS_SECURE_URN : MWS_URN,  
MWS_ENDPOINT, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, secure)
   result = @server.call('mywebservice.auth.login', :userName =>  
'me', :userPassword => 'password')
end

The results on the Shoes console are:

undefined method `closed?' for #<OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket:somehexnumber>

That leads me to believe that I don't understand how long @server  
hangs around, or something like that. Google has been little help in  
terms of how the gem system works or information about object scope,  
visibility and lifetime.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks