Ruby is case sensitive. Try with TCPServer..
-Jazmin On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:48 PM, zxcv <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. First post in this group and I hope someone can help. > > I am trying to teach myself Ruby with a long-term goal of doing some > web development using Ruby on Rails. > > Note: version > C:\rails\hello>ruby -v > ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32] > > I have been going through Jeremy McAnally's book "Mr. Neighborly’s > Humble Little Ruby Book" and there is a section in chapter 5 where he > explains how to connect a socket using the lines: > > require "socket" > myserver = TCPserver.new('localhost', 0) > > When I try this I get the error: > > C:\rails\hello>ruby server.rb > server.rb:2:in `<main>': uninitialized constant Object::TCPserver > (NameError) > > So I look in the socket.rb file and sure enough there is no TCPserver > class although all of the documentation I find online says there > should be. I even went to http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ to get > ruby and install again and still no luck. > > Is this a deprecated class? Is there some other way to make a socket > connection? Is there somewhere that I can get the version of socket > that contains this class? > > Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- Jazmin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
