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ruby `rescue in block in connect': Failed to open TCP connection to api

I am fairly new to ruby and I am having issues using code that I found on this
github. It is meant to use the Whitepages API to use their service and I am using it to do a reverse phone lookup. Here is my whitepages.rb file:

require 'json'
require 'net/https'
require 'uri'


class Whitepages

#Initialize the Whitepages class
# * api_key - The API key obtained from the Whitpages Developer website
def initialize(api_key)
api_version = "1.0"

@api_key = api_key
@base_uri = "http://api.whitepages.com/"
@find_person_uri = @base_uri + "find_person/" + api_version + "/?"
@reverse_phone_uri = @base_uri + "reverse_phone/" + api_version + "/?"
@reverse_address_uri = @base_uri + "reverse_address/" + api_version + "/?"

@uri = URI.parse(@base_uri)
@http = Net::HTTP.new(@uri.host, @uri.port)
end

#Retrieves contact information about a telephone number
#Accepts a hash:
# * phone - May be 7 digits if state provided otherwise 10 (*REQUIRED*)
# * state - Two digit code for the state
#More details may be found here: http://developer.whitepages.com/docs/Methods/reverse_phone
def reverse_phone(options)
resp, data = @http.get(build_uri(options, "reverse_phone"))

if resp.code== 200
return JSON.parse(data)
else
raise Exception,"code",resp.code
end

end



#Build the appropriate URL
def build_uri(options, type)
case type
when "reverse_phone"
built_uri = @reverse_phone_uri
when "reverse_address"
built_uri = @reverse_address_uri
when "find_person"
built_uri = @find_person_uri
end

options.each do |key,value|
if value != nil
built_uri = built_uri + key + "=" + value.gsub(' ', '%20') + ";"
end
end

built_uri = built_uri + "api_key=" + @api_key + ";outputtype=JSON"
return built_uri
end

end


And here is the class I use to test the code:

require 'rubygems'
require './whitepages'

API_KEY = MY ACTUAL API KEY AS A STRING

wp = Whitepages.new(API_KEY)



data = wp.reverse_phone({ "phone" => "4155551212",
"state" => "CA" })


When I run this file, I get the error: rescue in block in connect': Failed to open TCP connection to api.whitepages.com:80 (getaddrinfo: Name or service not known) (SocketError)

rescue in block in connect': Failed to open TCP connection to api.whitepages.com:80 (getaddrinfo: Name or service not known) (SocketError)

I can't find anything online specifically about connecting to APIs that would help me. Please, any help is greatly appreciated. PS: If you need to test the code, it does not take long at all to get a free API key from whitepages.com

proapi.whitepages.com:80

proagpi.whitepages.com

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