How to set timeout in RestClient gem in Ruby?

Question

I am using RestClient gem by making get call to the server through it. The question is how do I set the timeout from client side.

RestClient.get "http://127.0.0.1:7819/tokenize/word/stackoverflow"

I want to set it to 10 seconds.

Thanks in Advance!!

Marsipobranch

Answer 1

You don't need to monkey patch anything. You can use RestClient::Request directly, like:

RestClient::Request.execute(:method => :get, :url => url, :timeout => 10, :open_timeout => 10)

But remember the worst case scenario is 20 seconds.

Check the other post answer https://mcmap.net/q/391852/-ruby-rest-client-make-it-never-timeout

Cumberland

This should be the answer - I'm afraid that I must assert that monkey patches are evil due to the unintended side effects they have. – Citify

nit: you don't have to specify both timeout and open_timeout if those two are same value. timeout value will be used for both read_timeout and open_timeout. github.com/rest-client/rest-client/blob/… – Cle

When using RestClient::Resource, could try RestClient::Resource.new('http://slow', :timeout => 10) – Afforest