Since i had to handle so much crap with Facebook, Rails and the Facebooker plugin in order to get my latest application up, i decided to share a little bit with other innocent coders straying in the path of hell.
The Facebooker plugin interfaces with the Facebook API using the Net::HTTP ruby library and POSTs API requests (API call, FQL..) using the #post method (eventually, there's a whole bunch of stuff happening before that).
It sounds nice, it really does, problem is that in this specific app we have send a whole bunch of such requests to facebook, some requests return 1000-17,000+ strings back as JSON.... what makes Facebook simply.. stale.
Now getting like 3,400 Timeout exceptions raised in your production servers (adding that the CPU is on 3.2%, RAM is at 10%) is annoying. really annoying.
The "patch" we found for this issue was to ensure a specific amount of retries to be made by rescuing the Timeout Exception.
def get_my_somefing_from_fb retry_count = 0 begin do facebook crap rescue TimeoutError if (retry_count < 5) retry_count+=1 retry end end end
Now we are watching it closely to see exactly how it helps us, if at all.
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