@@ -12,10 +12,17 @@ namespace :twitter do unless status.empty? http = Net::HTTP.new(TWITTER_UPDATE_URL.host, 80) + http.read_timeout = 30 + headers = {'Authorization' => 'Basic ' + ["#{twitter_user}:#{twitter_password}"].pack('m').delete("\r\n")} body = "status=#{CGI.escape(status)}" - http.send(:post, TWITTER_UPDATE_URL.path, body, headers) + begin + http.send(:post, TWITTER_UPDATE_URL.path, body, headers) + rescue Timeout::Error => e + puts "Timeout after 30s: Seems like Twitter is down." + puts "Use \"cap twitter:update\" to update Twitter status later w/o deploying" + end # if an exception is thrown, let them see it, they're a developer (most likely) end end recipes/twitter.rb c56718e56226f65ad3879bec3cfdc4f35c289c85 Arya Asemanfar arya.asemanfar@gmail.com http://github.com/arya/capistrano_twitter/commit/d01dbc93f1316110def9c4a7e60fe3d1133979af d01dbc93f1316110def9c4a7e60fe3d1133979af 2008-06-05T19:43:19-07:00 2008-06-05T19:43:19-07:00 * Added timeout message 092b20d57086015dedf70e1e088a3be748602352 Arya Asemanfar arya.asemanfar@gmail.com