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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Standard Library URI

Posted by Top Kaza
Top Kaza
Courses Plus Student 3,416 Points

Using "google = open('http://google.com').read"

Just a tip that worked for me: I could only use the command "open('http://google.com').read" after using "require 'open-uri'". When I tried just with "require 'uri'" an error popped up.

J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
11,883 Points
J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
11,883 Points

Yeah, you have to include the modules to use the functions provided by the module.