Flickr Down, flickraw killed my app!
10/29/2009 Update Per Mael’s (Flickraw author) response, I was able to provide a better fix. FlickrawOptions = { :lazyload => true, :timeout => 2 } require 'flickraw' You can see more options in the documentation. 10/21/2009 Original Post As of the writing of this, Flickr has been down off and on for almost 2 hours. I noticed that a handful of our websites weren’t working. I traced the problem back to flickraw, there was one line in the ApplicationController: require 'flickraw' Not the best coding practice, but aside, it still needs to work without stalling on this line. In another project we had it enclosed in a begin end statement, but that didn’t do any good since no exceptions were being raised. ...