March 6, 2008
Ruby Timeout::Error
I wanted to post this before, but got busy and now I can’t find the original post about this, but anyway…
When doing network stuff in Ruby - using any Net:: libs - there’s a little trick to trap for timeouts. You can’t simply use “rescue” do handle it. The timeout error is not a subclass of the standard error, so you have to explicitly trap for it:

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