From: ppi@...
Date: 2004-01-26T08:12:35+09:00
Subject: Problem with Ruby 1.8.1 on FreeBSD 3.2

I installed Ruby 1.8.1 from source on FreeBSD 3.2.

No compile errors.  Ruby and irb seem to work fine.

Except, when I use require 'net/smtp' I get this error:

irb(main):006:0* require 'net/smtp'
LoadError: No such file to load -- socket
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:21:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:21
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:121:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:121
        from (irb):6:in `require'
        from (irb):6

I also installed Ruby 1.8.1 on FreeBSD 4.9 (from the port system), but the
same require statement works without error.

I then installed Ruby 1.6 on the FreeBSD 3.2 machine.  The require
'net/smtp' statement worked fine!

Any suggestions as to how to get 1.8.1 working on FreeBSD 3.2?

On the other hand, I could just use 1.6 on that machine.  This raises
the question: what is the performance speed difference between 1.6 and
1.8.1?  (I will be using mod_ruby, so speed is a factor for me.)

Mark Lindsay