[LRUG] Making Rails time out

[Rob Anderson]

The client is being written by someone else in some random language / framework.

I'm trying to give them the means to send a certain combination of data to our test server which results in our test server simulating a hang.  Or more specifically, I am trying to give our testing team the ability to enter a certain combination of data into their client, have it call our server, and know our server will simulate a hang.


On 19 Apr 2013, at 15:20, Andrew Stewart <boss at airbladesoftware.com> wrote:

> On 19 Apr 2013, at 16:07, Rob Anderson wrote:
>> One of the test cases we have come up with is what happens if our service just fails to respond at all - eg we accept the connection and then leave them hanging waiting for a response.  This should raise a client timeout and they should handle it appropriately.
>> 
>> But it s not at all clear how to achieve this in our test system.  I could put in some monster sleep command, but I don't really want to block the process - ideally I just want to tell ActionController: forget it, your work is done.
> 
> Are you asking about how to make the server hang or how to make the client give up after a certain time?
> 
> Yours,
> Andy Stewart
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