Exponential Backoff

Simple Exponential Backoff in Ruby

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Installation

$ gem install exponential_backoff

Usage

require 'exponential_backoff'

ExponentialBackoff.try(3) do
  res = HTTP.get(url)
  fail if res.error?
end

# or

begin
  ExponentialBackoff.try(2) { HTTP.get('www.google.com') }
rescue => e
  e.errors # => [#<RuntimeError: Blah>, #<ConnectionError: Bleh>]
end

API

ExponentialBackoff.try(max_number_of_tries) { request }