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

Answer 2

Your timeout isn't in the code you set the timeout for. It's here, where you use open-uri:

open("http://www.tubeminator.com/ajax.php?function=downloadvideo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vimeo.com%2F" + link[0],

You can set a read timeout for open-uri like so:

#!/usr/bin/ruby1.9

require 'open-uri'

open('http://stackoverflow.com', 'r', :read_timeout=>0.01) do |http|
  http.read
end

# => /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/protocol.rb:135:in `sysread': \
# => execution expired (Timeout::Error)
# => ...
# =>         from /tmp/foo.rb:5:in `<main>'

:read_timeout is new for Ruby 1.9 (it's not in Ruby 1.8). 0 or nil means "no timeout."