Ruby Net::HTTP time out

Question

I\'m trying to write my first Ruby program, but have a problem. The code has to download 32 MP3 files over HTTP. It actually downloads a few, then times-out.

I tried

Answer 1

For Ruby 1.8 I used this to solve my time-out issues. Extending the Net::HTTP class in my code and re-initialized with default parameters including an initialization of my own read_timeout should keep things sane I think.

require 'net/http'

# Lengthen timeout in Net::HTTP
module Net
    class HTTP
        alias old_initialize initialize

        def initialize(*args)
            old_initialize(*args)
            @read_timeout = 5*60     # 5 minutes
        end
    end
end