Ping a Server using Rails

Question

I am trying to ping a server using Rails. I found this

Check HTTP Status Code in Rails

but I get this error while running this code,

require 'net/http'

http = Net::HTTP.new('www.google.com',80)
response = http.request_get('/')
p response.status

Error:

`<main>': undefined method `status' for #<Net::HTTPFound 302 Found readbody=true> (NoMethodError)

Why? And why does google returns me a 302 code?? Shouldn't it be 200?

Answer 1

Use response.code if you are using ruby 1.9.