From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@...>
Date: 2012-03-30T09:38:45+09:00
Subject: Re: uninitialized constant SOCKSSocket

Ok, please forget everything I said before. My brain wasn't working
and I should have known better than to say anything on the internet in
that state.

SOCKSSocket appears to be an optional component of ruby.  That's why
resolv-replace only monkey-patches the class if it already exists.

As an illustration, 'net/ftp' defines the following method:

    def open_socket(host, port)
      if defined? SOCKSSocket and ENV["SOCKS_SERVER"]
        @passive = true
        return SOCKSSocket.open(host, port)
      else
        return TCPSocket.open(host, port)
      end
    end

Perhaps you could do something similar (i.e. create a SOCKS socket if
you have SOCKS enabled, otherwise create a boring old TCP socket).

And if you really need the proxy behaviour, a quick google search
revealed the following gem: http://socksify.rubyforge.org/ which
*might* be useful.

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