More convenient timeout

[kenn]

As much as I absolutely appreciate to have the flexibility of connect/write/read timeouts separately, sometimes it makes sense to have a simpler form:

HTTP.timeout(5).get

as a drop-in replacement for:

Timeout.timeout(5) { YourHttpTool.get }

which maintains parity with the original semantics, thus enable to migrate from other tools.

Is this something we're interested?

[ixti]

I was thinkign about this recently in fact. As we have shorthand syntax for :per_operation ( when you pass hash directly) I thought it will be reasonable to decide that timeout is :global when Integer is given.

[vincentwoo]

I agree, and was surprised to find that global did not work this way.