swanson/stringer — pull request #263 by jeroenj (2013-08-18 12:37:21+00:00)
Title: Sets 30sec connection timeout for feed parsing

I have a feed which is unavailable right now. By default curl (and curb) do not set a timeout, so it kept there trying to connect to the server. As a result I had a bunch of ruby processes that were stuck trying to connect to that feed which caused my server to go out of memory.

I think 30 seconds is an okay default. What do you think?