ruby ping for 1.9.1

Question

I want to ping a site in my ruby code and saw that net-ping was a nice library to do this with. Unfortunately, when I tried to gem install net-ping I got the following error:

Answer 1

For windows follow these instructions:

download djberg96-net-ping-net-ping-1.5.3-0-g9252076.zip from github.com/djberg96/net-ping
unzip, cd in the folder
gem build net-ping.gemspec
gem install net-ping-1.5.3-universal-mingw32.gem
gem install win32-security

to use it:

require 'net/ping'
p Net::Ping::TCP.new('www.google.com', 'http').ping?
p Net::Ping::TCP.new('foo.bar.baz').ping?