On 1 Oct 2007, at 16:10, Matt White wrote: > > Are you using a complete URI or just part of one? For example, > 'domain.com' is not a URI. Further: > > [root@server15 mwhite]# ruby -r uri -e 'p > URI.parse("google.com").host' > nil > [root@server15 mwhite]# ruby -r uri -e 'p URI.parse("http:// > google.com").host' > "google.com" > > If that's not the problem, maybe you could give us some code? Good > luck! Oh thank you so much, you spotted that one a million miles off, I missed out the http://. Have corrected this but now getting errors like: ./test_website.rb:13:in `test': uninitialized constant TestWebsite::NET (NameError) MMM something to keep my mind ticking over. Many thanks Gabriel