From: Philip Mateescu <philip@...>
Date: 2002-05-07T05:04:44+09:00
Subject: BOFH sample from rubycookbook

Hi,

I was trying the BOFH sample from the ruby cookbook and it's working with
the windows ruby version but it fails under cygwin with the error :
$ ./bofh.rb
./bofh.rb:8:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: invalid value for hints.
(SocketError)
        from ./bofh.rb:8:in `new'
        from ./bofh.rb:8:in `initialize'
        from ./bofh.rb:14:in `new'
        from ./bofh.rb:14

The bofh.rb is :
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require "net/http"
class BOFH
  attr :excuse
  def initialize
    t = TCPSocket.new('bofh.jive.org', 666)
    mumble, @excuse = t.readlines[3].split(': ')
    t.close
  end
end

puts BOFH.new.excuse

My "windows ruby" is ruby 1.7.2 (2002-03-20) [i386-mswin32] and the cygwin
one ruby 1.7.2 (2002-03-29) [i686-cygwin]. Any hints ? (I also have the cyg
updated to the latest version)...

Thanks a lot
philip