Poltergeist timeout

[AlreadyTalk]

Good morning,
I have a issue with the webshot.
I'm running the project in my local machine. I try to take a screenshot from my webpage, it gives my a time out from the poltergeist. If I try to take a the same page screenshot from the same page, but in some associate instance, doesn't give me the time out.
I look for the answer in other forums and nothing.
Can someone help me please?
I'm using Poltergeist, Capybara and PhantomJS

[vitalie]

Hi,

Check that you have enough CPU, RAM & bandwidth on your machine, also check that you can open the page from another browser.

Regards,
Vitalie

[AlreadyTalk]

Hello. Yes I can open the page on all the browsers in my local machine, and from my associate machine too. I just can't take the screenshot.

[manoj2411]

Hey,

Facing the same issue, any update on this ??

BTW I am getting this on my terminal

Webshot::WebshotError: Capybara error: "Timed out waiting for response to {\"name\":\"visit\",\"args\":[\"http://www.google.com/\"]}. It's possible that this happened because something took a very long time (for example a page load was slow). If so, setting the Poltergeist :timeout option to a higher value will help (see the docs for details). If increasing the timeout does not help, this is probably a bug in Poltergeist - please report it to the issue tracker."
    from /Users/manoj/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p484@heroku1/gems/webshot-0.0.7/lib/webshot/screenshot.rb:81:in `rescue in capture'
    from /Users/manoj/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p484@heroku1/gems/webshot-0.0.7/lib/webshot/screenshot.rb:30:in `capture'
    from (irb):2
    from /Users/manoj/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p484@heroku1/gems/railties-3.2.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
    from /Users/manoj/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p484@heroku1/gems/railties-3.2.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
    from /Users/manoj/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p484@heroku1/gems/railties-3.2.9/lib/rails/commands.rb:41:in `<top (required)>'
    from script/rails:6:in `require'
    from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

[arsenische]

Same here:

Webshot::WebshotError: Capybara error: "Timed out waiting for response to {\"name\":\"visit\",\"args\":[\"http://seocracking.blogspot.com/\"]}. It's possible that this happened because something took a very long time (for example a page load was slow). If so, setting the Poltergeist :timeout option to a higher value will help (see the docs for details). If increasing the timeout does not help, this is probably a bug in Poltergeist - please report it to the issue tracker."

ruby 2.0
phantomjs 1.9.7
webshot 0.0.7
capybara 2.4.3
poltergeist 1.5.1
ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

It works fine with most of the other sites though.

[vitalie]

@AlreadyTalk @manoj2411 @arsenische

I'll take a look at this today.

Thank you!

[vgracia]

Yep same here. : ( It seems that timeout is hard to recover from.

[rgo]

It's not the solution for the timeouts(I think it is a poltergeist/phantomJS problem) but it can helps to mitigate it.

@vitalie: You implemented a timeout with sleep in the capture method. You can set it very high to avoid the timeouts but it's a pain to wait for working URLs

I was thinking in replace the sleep with this code:

def wait_until
  require "timeout"
  Timeout.timeout(Capybara.default_wait_time) do
    sleep(0.1) until value = yield
    value
  end
end

Code from: https://gist.github.com/jnicklas/d8da686061f0a59ffdf7

But instead of getting the value from a yield get it from the "visit url" or "page.driver.status_code"

What do you think?

[corehook]

Yep same here. : (

[mrdougwright]

Any fix yet?

[rgo]

@mrdougwright have you tried with latest version(0.1.0)?

It upgrades poltergeist and allows to requires phantomjs to 2.x. If I'm not mistaken timeout problem was solved since this phantomjs version.

Regards

[mrdougwright]

Yes, and still getting timeout. I may open separate issue as I'm now seeing the webshots misplaced when called repeatedly from an each block.