How to specify a read timeout for a Net::HTTP::Post.new request in Ruby 2

Question

I have a post happening to a rails application from a ruby script. The script creates a variable request as

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
         


        

Answer 1

The read_timeout is available with a plain Net::HTTP object:

url = URI.parse('http://google.com')

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.read_timeout = 5 # seconds

http.request_post(url.path, JSON.generate(params)) do |response|
  # do something with response
  p response
end