Here’s an irb session, this used to work, maybe something new about
digg’s rss feed ?
irb(main):001:0> require ‘open-uri’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> open(‘Slashdot
slashdot’).readlines.length
=> 263
irb(main):003:0> open(‘http://www.digg.com/rss/
containertechnology.xml’).readlines.length
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in rbuf_fill': execution expired (Timeout::Error) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in
timeout’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in
rbuf_fill’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in readuntil' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in
readline’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1988:in read_status_line' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1977:in
read_new’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1046:in request' ... 8 levels... from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:86:in
open’
from (irb):3:in irb_binding' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in
irb_binding’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52
happens every time !