On Jun 17, 2008, at 19:57 PM, Pauli Price wrote: > I wrote this little website spidering script using hawler (sudo gem > install --source http://spoofed.org/files/hawler/ hawler) and got it > working on windows xp pro. I had to comment out some signal > handling in > the gem code, but other than that, using it was uneventful. > > Fast forward a few months - my xp laptop died and I purchased a new > macbook pro. Now the script that ran on XP won't run on mac os. I > haven't edited the gem files, as there was no need to remove the > signal > handling. > > Running on os x 10.5, I get the following error: > > Connection to http://www.some-domain.com/ failed! -- getaddrinfo: > nodename nor servname provided, or not known > > Not knowing where to start, I decided to run the gem's included tests. > But this time I get a different error, the following: > > $ ./test/ts_all.rb > ./test/ts_all.rb: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `(' > ./test/ts_all.rb: line 3: `$:.unshift > File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), > "..", "lib")' > > > The contents of this file are: > > # $Id: ts_all.rb 4 2008-03-02 04:47:09Z warchild $ > > $:.unshift File.join( File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "test") There is no shebang, so the file was run with sh. Try ruby test/test_all.rb.