Uncaught exception: Net::ReadTimeout

[netwire88]

All of a sudden, we are gettin Uncaught exception: Net::ReadTimeout, did the project go down?

[Splitrox]

Same thing here

[netwire88]

It looks like https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml is down

[Splitrox]

Maybe there's some way to make sure this gem doesn't crash the whole site?

[netwire88]

Until there's a better solution, you can do this

1. Download latest eurofxref-daily.txt and rename extension to .xml (can't upload XML files to GitHub)
2. Add it to your /config/initializers or somewhere similar
3. In money.rb, replace config.default_bank.update_rates with config.default_bank.update_rates(Rails.root.join('config', 'initializers', 'eurofxref-daily.xml'))

At least that'll start your project. I tried the code below in money.rb but the timeout is really long, so it doesn't work

  begin
    config.default_bank.update_rates
  rescue
    config.default_bank.update_rates(Rails.root.join('config', 'initializers', 'eurofxref-daily.xml'))
  end

[dobreandl]

https://github.com/rmustafin/russian_central_bank - This also works, if you're looking for a quick fix.

[ephraimm]

The feed is not down there has been a CAPTCHA check added:

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[bjer]

Any alternative sources? Don't really trust a Russian bank.. Could download https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml with curl after filling in the captcha but
the eu_central_bank gem fails to do so.

[ephraimm]

try https://github.com/spk/money-open-exchange-rates