Stubbornly

Stubbornly retries a given block until the maximum number of attempts or a timeout has been reached.

Examples

Timeout

require 'stubbornly'
require 'http'

class Checker
  def initialize(url)
    @url = url
    @stubbornly = Stubbornly.new
  end

  def up?
    @stubbornly.retry(timeout: 3) do
      HTTP.get(@url)
    end
  end
end

begin
  Checker.new('http://localhost:8765').up?
rescue => e
  warn "Error: #{e.message}"
end

Maximum number of attempts

require 'stubbornly'
require 'http'

class Checker
  def initialize(url)
    @url = url
    @stubbornly = Stubbornly.new
  end

  def up?
    @stubbornly.retry(attempts: 3) do
      response = HTTP.get(@url)
      puts "The site at #{@url} is up 👍"
    end
  end
end

begin
  Checker.new('http://localhost:8765').up?
rescue => e
  warn "Error: #{e.message}"
end

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.