I have changed the production server (debian, ruby 1.8.5 ) of one of my apps, and a script I was running doesn't work anymore.
Basically the script tries to open a web page. Something like this:
require 'rubygems' require 'open-uri'
open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/"\) {|f| f.each_line {|line| p line} }
The error it returns, for every page I've tried, is:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': Connection refused - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `open' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:242:in `open_http' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:616:in `buffer_open' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:518:in `open' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open'
What can it be? I haven't found a lot of infos on this error, so every hint (firewall problem? bug in the ruby version?... ) is appreciated.