On Mar 31, 3:41 pm, Danimal <fightonfightw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The flip-side may make more sense, while I think of it: spawn a thread
> to do the FTP connection and have your main thread sleep 30 seconds.
> Then have the main thread check the status and if need be kill the FTP
> connection or the child thread altogether.
>
which is basically what
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/timeout/rdoc/index.html
does
Fred
> Just a thought. :-)
>
> -Danimal
>
> On Mar 31, 8:14 am, Brian Zzzzzz <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > This may be more of a Ruby question but I'm using Ruby on Rails so I
> > thought I would post it here.
>
> > Hopefully someone can provide a suggestion on how to approach this.
>
> > I have a method that uploads a selection of files via FTP. For each file
> > the method gets the file's associated ftp host/domain, user name and
> > password, connects, uploads the file, updates the status of the file and
> > saves the updated information.
>
> > I'm now setting up error handling to email the file owner if the
> > response_code is not the expected successful code.
>
> > If a file has incorrect ftp information associated with it, I want to
> > send an email to the file owner to notify them, shouldn't be a problem.
>
> > So, if there is incorrect connection info, Net::FTP will retry
> > connecting until it times out which could be 3 to 5 minutes or more
> > depending on the FTP server's configuration.
>
> > I want to keep track of elapsed time and if the connection is not
> > established within 30 seconds, I want to cancel the connection and send
> > an email about the error to the file owner and move on to the next file.
>
> > So basically I want to make my own timeout, which times out faster than
> > the external FTP server.
>
> > [code]
> > start_timer_if_elapsed_time>=_30_seconds_cancel_connection
> > #open ftp connection
> > Net::FTP.open(ftp_link, ftp_username, ftp_password) # <-- this line
> > shouldn't attempt to connect longer than 30 seconds
>
> > do |ftp|
>
> > ## send the file to the ftp
> > ## update the status
> > ## save the file
> > end
> > [/code]
>
> > Any suggestions appreciated
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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