Broken Pipe error in HTTP-Access2 when used in Rails

[nicholas.henry]

Hello folks:

I'm using Ruby-Google in a Rails application. A couple minutes after my
first request (which executes successfully) I will make a second
request to Google and I get the following error (plus my trace):

Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2/http.rb:179:in `write'
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2/http.rb:179:in `<<'
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2/http.rb:179:in `dump'
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2/http.rb:386:in `dump'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:1213:in
`query'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:1211:in
`timeout'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:1211:in
`query'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:892:in
`query'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:434:in
`do_get_block'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:370:in
`conn_request'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:285:in
`request'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:264:in
`post'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:170:in
`send_post'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:109:in
`send'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:170:in `route'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:141:in `call'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:178:in `call'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:232:in
`doSpellingSuggestion'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:227:in
`doSpellingSuggestion'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/google.rb:330:in `spell'
from (irb):12
from :0

I'm not sure why this occurs -- any help would be much appreciated?

Cheers,
Nicholas