From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@...>
Date: 2012-03-29T20:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: uninitialized constant SOCKSSocket

It appears the class is only being defined if it's already defined.
Maybe change the last line's "if" to "unless" ..?

On 29/03/2012, Resident Moron <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I am running ruby 1.9.3 on a linux box.  I would like to use
> SOCKSSocket, however, I continue to run into the following error:
>
> uninitialized constant SOCKSSocket
>
> simple test using IRB
> irb(main):001:0> require 'resolv-replace'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> SOCKSSocket
> NameError: uninitialized constant SOCKSSocket
>   from (irb):2
>   from /usr/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>
> here is the source code directly from resolv-replace.rb
> class SOCKSSocket < TCPSocket
>   # :stopdoc:
>   alias original_resolv_initialize initialize
>   # :startdoc:
>   def initialize(host, serv)
>     original_resolv_initialize(IPSocket.getaddress(host), port)
>   end
> end if defined? SOCKSSocket
>
> I can't help but think that I need to install some dependency needed to
> enable socks or something.  Anything would be helpful.
>
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>
>


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