ruby rest-client: make it never timeout?

Question

I am trying to use ruby rest-client to upload a large number of images to a site that I\'m writing. My code looks like:

RestClient.post url, :timeout => 9000         


        

Answer 1

I already use RestClient.get and RestClient.post extensively, so for me, it was easier to 'Monkey Patch' RestClient. I would recommend using RestClient::Resource.new or RestClient::Request.Execute if possible.

However, since I'm lazy, and don't want to go swap out every occurrence of RestClient.get / RestClient.post in my code, I've decided to take a shortcut.

$timeout = 30
$open_timeout = 30

module RestClient2
  include RestClient

  def self.get(url, headers={}, &block)
    Request.execute(:method => :get, :url => url, :headers => headers, 
     :timeout => $timeout, :open_timeout => $open_timeout, &block)
  end

  def self.post(url, payload, headers={}, &block)
    Request.execute(:method => :post, :url => url, :payload => payload, :headers => headers,
     :timeout => $timeout, :open_timeout => $open_timeout, &block)
  end
end

And than I just just quick replaced RestClient.get/post with RestClient2.get/post.

It would be nice, if RestClient::Request had a default timeout specified, like:

  @timeout = args[:timeout] || 30
  @open_timeout = args[:open_timeout] || 30