[Httpmail-devel] Ruby error:

[Dane G. A. <da...@av...>]

Greetings,

I've been playing with both the Perl and Ruby implementations on Mac OS 
10.2.2 (Jaguar) and had a couple questions I was hoping people on the 
list might be able to help out with.  I'm not very skilled in Perl, and 
I'd never heard of Ruby before running across it here, but I was able 
to get the Perl version up and running with only minor heartache :)

I had to upgrade the default Mac OS Perl install from 5.6.0 -> 5.8.0, 
and installed expat.  I patched the Perl sources for httpmail as 
recommended by Rob Nagler (thanks Rob!) and was thrilled when I was 
able to redirect my mail.  However, I've been having some Perl 
problems, (probably related to Mac OS X and switching networks) and 
would like to get the Ruby version of httpmail working.

I have httpmail 0.3, the XMLParser library 0.6.5, and nqxml 1.1.3p1 
(which includes uri.rb).  When I run:

% ruby dav.rb <myHotmailAddress> <myHotmailPwd> <forwardingaddress>

dav.rb:55: undefined method `define_http_method_interface' for 
Net::HTTP:Class (NameError)

Any idea what could be causing this error?  I searched around to try to 
find more info about define_http_method_interface, but only found a 
couple links from Google, and none of them were helpful.

If anyone has suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them.  Also, if I 
figure out the Perl-related problem, I'll post a how-to for configuring 
httpmail on Mac OS X.  (In a nutshell, the problem is that everything 
works great . . . until I switch my network settings. I'm running Mac 
OS 10.2.2 on a Powerbook G4, and have 2 network settings: work and 
home.  When I boot my machine, I can use the Perl version of httpmail 
just fine . . . until I change my network settings.  Once I do that, it 
won't work any more, even if I change it back to the initial network 
settings.  The only way I know to get things working is to reboot . . . 
which really isn't acceptable :)  I saw a post on the list here about 
how to use

use LWP::Debug qw(+ -conns);

in get_httpmail.pl to output debugging messages, but that didn't help 
me narrow down the problem . . .)

This project is great, I'd just like to be able to use it w/o rebooting 
when I change my network settings, and I'm hoping the Ruby version will 
be easy to get working correctly.

Cheers,

Dane Avilla