Require 'socket' returns false in windows?

Ruby
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I have two windows computers that return false when the following
statement is executed:

require ‘socket’

Both computers are XP loaded with 1.8.6 via the one click installer. On
one of the windows machines I am able to disable the firewall which
makes no difference. The other windows machine does not have a local
fire wall. I know that require is finding the file, because I get a
completely different message if I require something that doesn’t exist.
I am wondering if this is an initialization error, or a false false.

I also have a Linux machine. On my Linux Machine, the statement returns
true as expected.

What can I do to figure out what is causing this?

Thanks

Dave M

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David M. wrote:

I am wondering if this is an initialization error, or a false false.

I also have a Linux machine. On my Linux Machine, the statement returns
true as expected.

What can I do to figure out what is causing this?

It just means that socket has already been loaded:

$ RUBYOPT="" ruby -e ‘p require(“socket”); p require(“socket”)’
true
false

(I had to clear RUBYOPT to show this because otherwise gems was
apparently loading socket.)

3

That was it.

Thanks Joel.