# Problem with FxRuby sample "Dilbert.rb"

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/problem-with-fxruby-sample-dilbert-rb/12296>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [26 June 2004 21:33 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/problem-with-fxruby-sample-dilbert-rb/12296 "2004-06-26T21:33:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Austin4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Mike\_Austin4](https://rubytalk.org/u/Mike_Austin4)\
**Post date:** [26 June 2004 21:33 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/problem-with-fxruby-sample-dilbert-rb/12296/1 "2004-06-26T21:33:04Z")

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Hi,

I copied this sample to a test folder. The code warned that "this example  
depends on the html-parser extension." I:  
-- downloaded html-parser-2 from  
[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/html-parser-2/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/html-parser-2/)  
-- unpacked the result into a working folder  
-- ran setup in that folder,  
-- targeted the output to Ruby\lib\ruby\site\_ruby\, which yielded  
formatter.rb. html-parser.rb and sgml-parser.rb  
-- ran Dilbert.rb in the SciTE environment under Windows2000Pro  
-- got following error messages:

I:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in `connect':  
undefined method `timeout' for #\<Net::InternetMessageIO closed\>  
(NoMethodError)  
from I:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:65:in `initialize'  
from I:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:422:in `open'  
from I:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:422:in `do\_start'  
from I:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:409:in `start'  
from I:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:324:in `start'  
from dilbert.rb:81:in `getImageData'  
from dilbert.rb:58:in `initialize'  
from dilbert.rb:98:in `new'  
from dilbert.rb:98

I found that there is an htmltest.rb program which I might use to test my  
installation, but could only find member descriptions for it at  
[http://borges.rubyforge.org/RDoc/files/lib/Borges/Test/HtmlTest\_rb.html](http://borges.rubyforge.org/RDoc/files/lib/Borges/Test/HtmlTest_rb.html) and  
no site from which to download it.

I'm running ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]

Any suggestions?

TIA,  
Richard

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