How to handle connection timeouts?

[MrBlankman]

I'm finding that a number of requests seem to stall or timeout on
facebook. Is anyone else seeing this and, if so, how are you handling
it? Is there a way to t a timeout with mini_FB to catch a facebook
stall and act?

[Travis Reeder]

Wrap it in a timeout block:

require 'timeout'
  status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
    # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
  }