undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass about garb

[tpitale]

Which patch level of 1.8.7? I'm using 1.8.7-p299 and this is what I get:

tpitale@localhost@~> irb
ruby-1.8.7-p299 > require 'rubygems'
=> true
ruby-1.8.7-p299 > require 'garb'
=> true
ruby-1.8.7-p299 > Garb::Session.login('user', 'pass')
Garb::AuthenticationRequest::AuthError: Garb::AuthenticationRequest::AuthError
from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299/gems/garb-0.8.1/lib/garb/authentication_request.rb:37:in send_request' from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1054:inrequest'
from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2144:in reading_body' from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1053:inrequest'
from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1037:in request' from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:543:instart'
from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1035:in request' from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299/gems/garb-0.8.1/lib/garb/authentication_request.rb:36:insend_request'
from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299/gems/garb-0.8.1/lib/garb/authentication_request.rb:49:in auth_token' from /Users/tpitale/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299/gems/garb-0.8.1/lib/garb/session.rb:10:inlogin'
from (irb):3

[buntine]

Hey, this is on patch level 249. According to the Changelog, it looks like the problem may have been fixed in net/http on May 22nd, 2010.

For reference, in debug mode, it's clear that Garb is raising the correct exception, but Ruby is raising another. I'm not exactly sure what's going on here as I'd have thought the first exception would halt execution.

irb(main):002:0> Garb::Session.login("a", "s")
Exception `Garb::AuthenticationRequest::AuthError' at /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/garb-0.8.0/lib/garb/authentication_request.rb:37 - Garb::AuthenticationRequest::AuthError
Exception `Garb::AuthenticationRequest::AuthError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1061 - Garb::AuthenticationRequest::AuthError
Exception `NoMethodError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1060 - undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
Exception `NoMethodError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:81 - undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
NoMethodError: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1060:in `request'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/garb-0.8.0/lib/garb/authentication_request.rb:36:in `send_request'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/garb-0.8.0/lib/garb/authentication_request.rb:49:in `auth_token'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/garb-0.8.0/lib/garb/session.rb:10:in `login'
    from (irb):2

Thanks! :)

[nbibler]

If it helps, I just saw this same exception (undefined method closed?) raised from within ruby-1.8.7-p248, x86_64, using ActiveResource 3.0.3 with an empty application. Outside of garb. Just a straight ActiveResource::Base inherited class call.