From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T17:26:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to set the timeout attr when using open-uri to open a url.

On 6/15/07, sishen <yedingding@gmail.com> wrote:
> I met a problem using open-uri.
>
> I want to set the timeout of the open process. And i see the open method has
> a option named "read_timeout".
> So i just code as
>   open("www.abc.com", {:read_timeout => 10}).
>
> But, i can't see the effect. What's wrong with that?  Any help thanks.
>

You can use the timeout library.

timeout(10) do
  open "www.abc.com"
end

it raises a TimeoutError if the request doesn't complete in 10 seconds.

Pat