Connection timed out - connect(2)

[nodakjones]

It looks like Twitter is down right now and because I have this gem loaded on the front page of my site, then my site is down. Any thoughts about how to gracefully handle this type of an issue?

[DriesS]

+1 same here, website not accessible because downtime twitter!

[jamesmk]

You can set a timeout exception, in Rails it would be:

require 'timeout'
begin
  @tweets = Timeout.timeout(5) do # try for 5 seconds
    Twitter.user_timeline('my_handle')
  end
rescue Timeout::Error
  logger.debug('oh noes')
end

[sferik]

The twitter gem uses faraday to perform HTTP requests and already exposes an interface to pass arbitrary connection options to faraday. For example:

Twitter.connection_options = {:timeout => 5, :open_timeout => 2}