Why do I get "undefined method `set_form_data' for URI:Module"

Ruby
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using Ruby 1.9.3
accoding to the docs:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html
The following should be fine… however…

  require 'net/http'

  url = URI.parse("www.myservice.com/resource/path")
  params={"param1","myParam"}
  url.query = URI.set_form_data(params)

  ... make some request...

I get the error message:
undefined method `set_form_data’ for URI:Module
Also, FWIW, I get the same undefined method for: encode_www_form(params)
as well.

Anybody ever see this? If so was there a workaround?

Thanks in advance,
Mike