1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/railties/bin/generate b/railties/bin/generate
index 55c55724b1..42698f8be7 100755
--- a/railties/bin/generate
+++ b/railties/bin/generate
@@ -6,14 +6,18 @@ ARGV.shift unless ARGV.empty? or not ['--help', '-h'].include?(ARGV[0])
 
 def find_synonyms(word)
   require 'open-uri'
+  require 'timeout'
+
   uri = "http://wordnet.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.0?stage=2" +
     "&word=%s&posnumber=1&searchtypenumber=2&senses=&showglosses=1"
 
-  open(uri % word) do |stream|
-    data = stream.read.gsub("&nbsp;", " ").gsub("<BR>", "")
-    data.scan(/^Sense \d+\n.+?\n\n/m)
+  timeout(5) do
+    open(uri % word) do |stream|
+      data = stream.read.gsub("&nbsp;", " ").gsub("<BR>", "")
+      data.scan(/^Sense \d+\n.+?\n\n/m)
+    end
   end
-rescue Exception
+rescue Timeout::Error, Exception
   return nil
 end
 
@@ -66,4 +70,4 @@ end_usage
          #{$0} login
 end_usage
   exit 0
-end
-\ No newline at end of file
+end