Few improvements

itunes.gemspec

@@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency('simplecov', '~> 0.4.2')
   s.add_development_dependency('webmock', '~> 1.7')
   s.add_development_dependency('vcr', '~> 1.11')
+  s.add_development_dependency('json', '~> 1.6')
 
   s.add_runtime_dependency('rash', '~> 0.3')
   s.add_runtime_dependency('faraday_middleware', '~> 0.7')
   s.add_runtime_dependency('multi_json', '~> 1.0')
-
+  
   s.files         = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
   s.test_files    = `git ls-files -- {test,spec,features}/*`.split("\n")
   s.executables   = `git ls-files -- bin/*`.split("\n").map{ |f| File.basename(f) }

lib/itunes/request.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 module ITunes
   module Request
+    REQUEST_OPTIONS = {
+      :timeout => 5,
+      :open_timeout => 5
+    }
+
     # @private
     private
 
@@ -9,6 +14,7 @@ def request(request_type, params)
 
         response = connection.get do |req|
           req.url url, params
+          req.options = REQUEST_OPTIONS
         end
         response.body
       end