Timeout::Error mystery

[Ruby Ronin]

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Ruby/programming noob here. I've just finished my first real app, but it's
performance is occassionally plagued by the following error message:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired
(Timeout::Error)
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in `rbuf_fill'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2017:in `read_status_line'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2006:in `read_new'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1047:in `request'

I did find one proposed solution here (modifying the rbuf_fill method):
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/105212 , but it doesn't seem to work for
me. These posts also explains why standard error handling won't work.

Does anyone have another solution?

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Eric Hodel]

Ruby/programming noob here. I've just finished my first real app,
but it's
performance is occassionally plagued by the following error message:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired
(Timeout::Error)
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in `rbuf_fill'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2017:in
`read_status_line'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2006:in `read_new'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1047:in `request'

I did find one proposed solution here (modifying the rbuf_fill
method):
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/105212 , but it doesn't seem to work
for
me. These posts also explains why standard error handling won't work.

Does anyone have another solution?

Timeout::Error is an Interrupt subclass, which is not a StandardError
subclass. You must rescue Timeout::Error explicitly to handle the
exception.

 

[Ruby Ronin]

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I didn't understand what you meant at first. Once I had some time to look
into explicit exception handling I figured it out, and it worked - thanks!