I was working with an api and encountered a situation where the api server tend to raise some unexpected error. The case seems to be inevitable when working with api. So I thought maybe there is a way in ruby to handle those times wherein we prefer to perform the operation once again whenever we hit a specific error.

Here Ruby's retry function will come in handy. It can be called within a rescue block in order to perform the rescued block again.

ruby def fetch_api_records begin api.perform rescue SomeApiTimeoutError retry end end

This however could possibly result to a never ending retry.

We can improve this by adding a limit to the number of tries:

ruby def fetch_api_records begin api.perform rescue SomeApiTimeoutError # @fetch_api_retry_counter should be set probably in the class initializer retry if (@fetch_api_retry_counter =- 1) > 0 end end