NetHttpTimeoutErrors

Whether you use Net::HTTP or some higher abstraction like HTTParty, are you tired of having to rescue an ever-growing list of Net::HTTP timeout error types?

Just load this gem and then do:

begin
  uri = URI.parse("http://google.com/")
  response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
rescue *NetHttpTimeoutErrors.all
  puts "It timed out some way or other!"
rescue AnotherError, *NetHttpTimeoutErrors.all
  puts "This works too."
end

Or if you prefer:

begin
  NetHttpTimeoutErrors.conflate do
    uri = URI.parse("http://google.com/")
    response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
  end
rescue NetHttpTimeoutError
  puts "It timed out some way or other!"
end

You can still get at the original error through NetHttpTimeoutError#original_error.

Did we miss an error? Please add it!

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'net_http_timeout_errors'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install net_http_timeout_errors

There is also net_http_exception_fix which cleverly tags these exceptions with a Net::HTTPBroken module that you can rescue.

You may prefer about this library that it very explicitly raises a single exception. The tagged exceptions are less obviously the same.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.