# Slow/unpredictive response of post\_form from rails lib **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 5, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-unpredictive-response-of-post-form-from-rails-lib/169613 "2009-06-05T22:43:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![makuchaku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@makuchaku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/makuchaku)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-unpredictive-response-of-post-form-from-rails-lib/169613/1 "2009-06-05T22:43:08Z")
Hi friends, I’m facing a very strange problem… I consume a webservice from within my rails app. I’ve written a thin wrapper around the webservice using Net::HTTP.post\_form However, when calling the API from within my controllers, the API calls randomly fail, complaining about timeout. But - when I wrote a simple iterative test (500 iterations), calling the same webservice using same thin wrapper (via rake) - to my surprise, none of the calls failed. I repeated the iterative test twice before thinking of writing to Rails forum… Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance… Regards, Maku ---
**Author:** ![makuchaku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@makuchaku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/makuchaku)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-unpredictive-response-of-post-form-from-rails-lib/169613/2 "2009-06-05T22:47:43Z")
A timeout from time to time isn’t something to worry about, in your library you can just add a “retry” clause and retry a specific number of times (maybe 2) before raising the exception to the calling code. - Maurício Linhares [http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/](http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/) (pt-br) | [http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/](http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/) (en) On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Mayank