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-rw-r--r--activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
index 570732e236..9859b6dcd2 100644
--- a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
+++ b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
@@ -183,12 +183,15 @@ module ActiveResource
# self.timeout = 5
# end
#
- # This sets the +timeout+ to 5 seconds. You can adjust the timeout to a value suitable for the RESTful API
+ # This sets the +timeout+ to 5 seconds. You can adjust the +timeout+ to a value suitable for the RESTful API
# you are accessing. It is recommended to set this to a reasonably low value to allow your Active Resource
# clients (especially if you are using Active Resource in a Rails application) to fail-fast (see
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-fast) rather than cause cascading failures that could incapacitate your
# server.
#
+ # When a timeout occurs, an ActiveResource::TimeoutError is raised. You should rescue from
+ # ActiveResource::TimeoutError in your Active Resource method calls.
+ #
# Internally, Active Resource relies on Ruby's Net::HTTP library to make HTTP requests. Setting +timeout+
# sets the <tt>read_timeout</tt> of the internal Net::HTTP instance to the same value. The default
# <tt>read_timeout</tt> is 60 seconds on most Ruby implementations.