How to set up proxy for rails app?

Rails
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Hello everyone,

I’m trying to create simple rails app using NetBeans
(nbextras.org) from scratch as
described here:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2007/03/building_a_ruby.html

But there’s a problem: since I’m behind proxy, and I’m trying to access
some resource outside (see class Flicker in enviroment.rb), app doesn’t
work; when you type some tag, and hit Find, it ends with error

SocketError in FlickrController#search

getaddrinfo: no address associated with hostname.

Is there a way how to deal with it? I.e. pass somehow my proxy settings
to WEBrick? Or the problem has to be solved on the app side?? Thanks in
advance.

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You will probably need to look at the source (or the docs for the
Flickr api). I know the api uses Net::Http for communication which
does allow for using proxies. Hopefully the flickr api gives you a
way to set the proxy server and port.

If not you may have to modify the flickr module to do this where you
see Net::HTTP.start:

proxy_addr = 'your.proxy.host'
 proxy_port = 8080
 Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_addr, proxy_port).start('server.com') {|

http|
}

scott.

On Apr 18, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Tomas Musil wrote:

access
to WEBrick? Or the problem has to be solved on the app side??
Thanks in
advance.

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