From: Gennady Bystritsky <bystr@...>
Date: 2002-11-18T15:08:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with net/http on OS X?


On Sunday, Nov 17, 2002, at 21:33 US/Pacific, Daniel Berlinger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using the standard OS X 10.2.x install of Ruby.
>
> I'm trying to use
>
> require 'net/http'
> Net::HTTP.get_print 'blah' 'blah'
>
>
> and I get this error...
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:21:in `require': No such file 
> to load -- timeout (LoadError)
>     from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:21
>     from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/http.rb:398:in `require'
>     from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/http.rb:398
>     from /Users/daniel/Documents/Ruby/http get:4:in `require'
>     from /Users/daniel/Documents/Ruby/http get:4
>
>
> and in fact "timeout" is "required" by net/http.rb and is apparently 
> non-existant.
>
> Is this a bug in this version/installation? Or have I missed 
> something...


I experienced the same error on Solaris when doing
   require 'irb'

and then
   IRB::start $STDOUT

I have started several threads in between. I did not investigate what 
was the reason for the problem, I just put "sleep 1" right before 
IRB::start and this helped. My understanding is that there's some lazy 
loading involved and in multi-threaded environment timing makes big 
difference. However it would be nice to get to the core of the problem.

Gennady.

> Thanks,
>
> d.
>
>