#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'cgi'

def fetch_json(url)
  resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
  data = resp.body
  JSON.parse(data)
end

url = CGI.escape("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/?v=2&alt=jsonc&q=eisbrecher&max-results=4")
fetch_json(url)


#this is the error I get
#/usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `initialize': Connection refused - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `open'
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `block in connect'
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout'
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:100:in `timeout'
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `connect'
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:756:in `do_start'
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:745:in `start'
#   from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:454:in `get_response'
#   from ./testcase.rb:9:in `fetch_json'
#   from ./testcase.rb:15:in `<main>'