# Eruby & Mechanize error

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eruby-mechanize-error/91158>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 5, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eruby-mechanize-error/91158 "2007-04-05T07:00:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eruby-mechanize-error/91158/1 "2007-04-05T07:00:59Z")

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Hi,

I am working on a web tool that takes user input and submits this  
information to a list of websites like google, yahoo, hotmail etc. It  
automates form (e.g login form) submission for these websites using  
Mechanize in Ruby.  
I have used eruby for the web pages, but when I try to use Mechanize,  
the  
web page gives error “Temporary failure in name resolution”

\<%  
require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘mechanize’

```
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page = agent.get(http://www.google.com)
form = page.forms[0]
google_form.q = 'ruby mechanize'
page = agent.submit(form)
puts page.body

```

%\>

[Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod\_ruby:  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution (SocketError) 2902 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in`open’  
2903 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod\_ruby: from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect' 2904 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in`timeout’  
2905 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod\_ruby: from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout' 2906 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in`connect’  
2907 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod\_ruby: from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start' 2908 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in`start’  
2909 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod\_ruby: from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.5/lib/mechanize.rb:  
390:in  
`fetch_page' 2910 [Tue Apr 03 14:48:43 2007] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.5/lib/mechanize.rb: 160:in`get’

However if I run the same script from command line, it works fine.

Does somebody know how can I make this work from the web page ?