Rescuing from failed api calls

Question

So I have an api fetch in my app where once in awhile it'll fail and give out a 500 internal server error which is just fixed with a refresh, but how do I rescue rails from this situation and just have it wait to load the page until the api call is successful?

Answer 1

Have a look at this great retryable method: link.

Note you can customize it with a sleep to pause between two requests.