Handling Timeout error - ruby-on-rails

Question

After using timeout:
status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
# Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
}
I got this Timeout error:
/Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `initialize': execution expired (Timeout::Error)
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `open'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `block in connect'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:44:in `timeout'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:87:in `timeout'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `connect'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:637:in `do_start'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:632:in `start'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/mechanize-1.0.0/lib/mechanize.rb:527:in `fetch_page'
from /Users/galharth/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/mechanize-1.0.0/lib/mechanize.rb:259:in `get'
What should I do?

Answer 1

Well, that's expected behaviour of Timeout. If the block takes too long, its execution gets terminated and an exception thrown.
You would probably like to catch the exception and handle it appropriately:
require 'timeout'
begin
status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
# Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
}
rescue Timeout::Error
puts 'That took too long, exiting...'
end

Answer 2

uri = URI.parse("https://example.com")
# Full control
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
#http.read_timeout = 500
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
request.set_form_data({"locationcode" => "999", "sublocationcode" => "1"})
response = http.request(request)
render :json => response.body