couchrest_model/lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb

# This file must be loaded after the JSON gem and any other library that beats up the Time class.
class Time
  # This date format sorts lexicographically
  # and is compatible with Javascript's <tt>new Date(time_string)</tt> constructor.
  # Note this this format stores all dates in UTC so that collation 
  # order is preserved. (There's no longer a need to set <tt>ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC'</tt>
  # in your application.)

  def to_json(options = nil)
    u = self.utc
    %("#{u.strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S +0000")}")
  end

  # Decodes the JSON time format to a UTC time.
  # Based on Time.parse from ActiveSupport. ActiveSupport's version
  # is more complete, returning a time in your current timezone, 
  # rather than keeping the time in UTC. YMMV.
  # def self.parse string, fallback=nil
  #   d = DateTime.parse(string).new_offset
  #   self.utc(d.year, d.month, d.day, d.hour, d.min, d.sec)
  # rescue
  #   fallback
  # end
end

# Monkey patch for faster net/http io
if RUBY_VERSION.to_f < 1.9
  class Net::BufferedIO #:nodoc:
    alias :old_rbuf_fill :rbuf_fill
    def rbuf_fill
      begin
        @rbuf << @io.read_nonblock(65536)
      rescue Errno::EWOULDBLOCK
        if IO.select([@io], nil, nil, @read_timeout)
          @rbuf << @io.read_nonblock(65536)
        else
          raise Timeout::TimeoutError
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

module RestClient
  def self.copy(url, headers={})
    Request.execute(:method => :copy,
      :url => url,
      :headers => headers)
  end
  
  def self.move(url, headers={})
    Request.execute(:method => :move,
    :url => url,
    :headers => headers)
  end
  
  class Request 
    def transmit(uri, req, payload)
			setup_credentials(req)
			
			Thread.current[:host] ||= uri.host
      Thread.current[:port] ||= uri.port

			net = net_http_class.new(uri.host, uri.port)
      
      if Thread.current[:connection].nil? || Thread.current[:host] != uri.host
        Thread.current[:connection].finish if (Thread.current[:connection] && Thread.current[:connection].started?)
        net.use_ssl = uri.is_a?(URI::HTTPS)
        net.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
        Thread.current[:connection] = net
        Thread.current[:connection].start
      end

			display_log request_log
      http = Thread.current[:connection]

      http.read_timeout = @timeout if @timeout
      begin
  			res = http.request(req, payload)
  		rescue
  		  # p "Net::HTTP connection failed, reconnecting"
  		  Thread.current[:connection].finish
  		  http = Thread.current[:connection] = net
        Thread.current[:connection].start
        res = http.request(req, payload)
        display_log response_log(res)
  			process_result res
		  else
  			display_log response_log(res)
  			process_result res
  		end
			
		rescue EOFError
			raise RestClient::ServerBrokeConnection
		rescue Timeout::Error
			raise RestClient::RequestTimeout
		end
  end
end