Rails - Jun 2009 - Slow/unpredictive response of post_form from rails lib

Hi friends,

I''m facing a very strange problem...

I consume a webservice from within my rails app. I''ve written a thin
wrapper around the webservice using Net::HTTP.post_form

However, when calling the API from within my controllers, the API calls
randomly fail, complaining about timeout.

But - when I wrote a simple iterative test (500 iterations), calling the
same webservice using same thin wrapper (via rake) - to my surprise,
none of the calls failed.

I repeated the iterative test twice before thinking of writing to Rails
forum...

Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
Maku
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

A timeout from time to time isn''t something to worry about, in your
library you can just add a "retry" clause and retry a specific number
of times (maybe 2) before raising the exception to the calling code.

-
Maurício Linhares
http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) |
http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/ (en)



On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Mayank
(www.apnabill.com)<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Hi friends,
>
> I''m facing a very strange problem...
>
> I consume a webservice from within my rails app. I''ve written a
thin
> wrapper around the webservice using Net::HTTP.post_form
>
> However, when calling the API from within my controllers, the API calls
> randomly fail, complaining about timeout.
>
> But - when I wrote a simple iterative test (500 iterations), calling the
> same webservice using same thin wrapper (via rake) - to my surprise,
> none of the calls failed.
>
> I repeated the iterative test twice before thinking of writing to Rails
> forum...
>
> Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Regards,
> Maku
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>