From 3066458eedfd5953389a073cb6497f0f84920e1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Wood <john@interactivemediums.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:40 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Provide a description of the timeout error

---
 lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb b/lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb
index 95c52c3..c48ac7c 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ if RUBY_VERSION.to_f < 1.9
           if IO.select([@io], nil, nil, @read_timeout)
             retry
           else
-            raise Timeout::Error
+            raise Timeout::Error, "IO timeout"
           end
         end
       else