Mechanize::FileConnection not working in windows

[pocari]

my environment

ruby 2.1.6p336 (2015-04-13 revision 50298) [x64-mingw32]
mechanize 2.7.4

problem

In Windows, URI::Generic#path returns path which not include drive letter

e.g)

URI.parse('C:/temp/foo.txt').path
=> "/temp/foo.txt"

Parsing file which exists in C drive, 404 error occured during executing ruby script which exists in D drive.
I think Mechanize is trying to read file in D drive because uri.path is not include drive letter.

vendor/bundle/ruby/2.1.0/gems/mechanize-2.7.4/lib/mechanize/file_response.rb:12:in `read_body': 404 => Net::HTTPNotFound for file:/temp/xxx.html -- Mechanize::ResponseCodeError (Mechanize::ResponseCodeError)

so, I have worked around by the following monkey patch.
(uri.host is drive letter)

Mechanize::FileConnection

class Mechanize::FileConnection
  def request uri, request
    if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mingw/
      yield Mechanize::FileResponse.new Mechanize::Util.uri_unescape uri.host + ":" + uri.path
    else
      yield Mechanize::FileResponse.new Mechanize::Util.uri_unescape uri.path
    end
  end
end

Are there good method to fix this problem ?

[flavorjones]

Will be fixed in v2.8.0