"Shashank Date" <sdate / everestkc.net> wrote in message
> Apparently, there is a patch for "resolv.rb" on win32 which you may
> need to apply.

I was able to ugly-hack this file till the error shifted to :

   C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/resolv_new.rb:614:in `fcntl': The fcntl() function
                is unimplemented on this machine (NotImplementedError)

and then I gave up.