Global timeouts for Ruby's Net::HTTP.

Net::HTTP by default has a connect timeout of 60 seconds and a request timeout of 60 seconds, a 2 minutes worst-case scenario timeout, with auto-retry.

These defaults are kinda dangerous in a micro-services environment, where requests should happen fast or just timeout, to avoid server processes locking.

This gem lets you globally restrict timeouts of Net::HTTP calls, so that all gems and libraries that use Net::HTTP will timeout fast.

• Add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'http-cage'

# Initialize the cage in your app initializer.
HTTPCage.timeout(connection: 3, request: 5)

# Increase global timeouts in a delayed job, for example.
HTTPCage.timeout(connection: 10, request: 30)

bundle exec rake test:all

• Forking server, slow request: example.rb
• Without http-cage: without_cage.rb
• With http-cage: with_cage.rb

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• nixtrace

• Designer: Francesca Segantini
• Director: Justin Dorfman

MIT License