activeresource

I've been struggling with an issue with ActiveResource for a bit now: when a hostname resolves for an ActiveResource request, but there's no server on the other end to return information, ActiveResource's timeout value doesn't work. The request just hangs. After reviewing the ActiveResource code, I've realized that this is because the underlying Net:Http object only has one timeout value set: read_timeout. The Net:Http library defines this as "Seconds to wait until reading one block (by one read(2) call)". The Net:Http lib also defines another timeout value, open_timeout, which is defined as

I am building a sinatra app that will use Highrise CRM gem to access Highrise data. This gem is based on ActiveResource class. I want to set site, user fields for every request. I followed suggestion posted here - Is it thread safe to set Active Resource HTTP authentication on a per-user basis? . I add code (shown below) and I get an error. Can anyone help understand this error and how to fix it. class ActiveResource::Base class << self %w(site user).each do |attr| define_method(attr) do Thread.current["active_resource.#{attr}"] end define_method("#{attr}=", val) do Thread.current["active

I am trying to use ActiveResource to consume xml data from a third party API. I can use the RESTClient app to successfully authenticate and make requests. I coded my app and when I make a request I get a 404 error. I added: ActiveResource::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDERR) to my development.rb file and figured out the problem. The API responds with xml data to requests that do NOT end in xml. EG, this works in RESTClient: https://api.example.com/contacts but ActiveResource is sending this request instead https://api.example.com/contacts.xml Is there anyway "nice" way to strip the extension from

I have 2 RESTful Rails apps I'm trying to make talk to each other. Both are written in Rails 3 (beta3 at the moment). The requests to the service will require the use an api key which is just a param that needs to be on every request. I can't seem to find any information on how to do this. You define the url the resource connects to via the site= method. There should be an equivalent query_params= method or similar. There is one good blog post I found related to this and it's from October 2008, so not exactly useful for Rails 3. Update : I had a thought. Would a small Rack middleware or Metal

Active Resource can make use of HTTP authentication set at the class level. For instance: class Resource < ActiveResource::Base end Resource.user = 'user' Resource.password = 'password' or Resource.site = "http://user:password@site.com/" But what if I use different HTTP authentication based on which user is logged in? If I change Resource.user and Resource.password, is that going to cause a race condition where requests from one thread suddenly start using the authentication of a user whose requests are running simultaneously in a different thread? Or is this a non-issue (as long as I reset

My company is reworking its API and wants to make everything RIGHT for this time ;) Thats the setup... We are delivering data to clients over the internet. Clients are mobile handsets like iPhone, Androids, J2ME, Blackberry... The server is coded in Ruby on Rails We want to achieve through a framework... Take use of ActiveResource on the clients. The framework should do the connection (REST), parsing and (dynamically) providing of models Licence must be open source. Authorization shall be included. We use OAuth and need to deliver the Access Token on any request. Maybe as parameter or in the