Are rails timers reliable when using Net::HTTP?
- by Frank
Hi All. When reading data from a potentially slow website, I want to ensure that get_response can not hang, and so added a timer to timeout after x seconds. So far, so good. I then read http://ph7spot.com/musings/system-timer which illustrates that in certain situations timer.rb doesn't work due to ruby's implementation of threads.
Does anyone know if this is one of these situations?
url = URI.parse(someurl)
begin
Timeout::timeout(30) do
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)
@responseValue = CGI.unescape(response.body)
end
rescue Exception = e
dosomething
end
