Question

I install whois using $ gem install whois and follow Ruby Whois
but when I test it in irb, it gives error:

1.9.3p194 :001 > c = Whois::Client.new
NameError: uninitialized constant Whois
from (irb):1
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands.rb:41:in `<top (required)>'
from script/rails:6:in `require'
from script/rails:6:in `<main>

EDIT

when I require 'whois' gives another error:

1.9.3p194 :003 > require 'whois'
LoadError: cannot load such file -- whois
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `block in require'
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load_dependency'
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
from (irb):3
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
from /home/darshana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands.rb:41:in `<top (required)>'
from script/rails:6:in `require'
from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try to install and load the whois library .. that worked for me.

> gem install whois
> irb
* require 'whois'  
* c = Whois::Client.new
>>  #<Whois::Client:0x8f0fa34 @timeout=10, @settings={}>