Automate timeout handling (wait and refresh) in watir

Question

I have always learned that good coding means: do not repeat yourself. But these days I keep repeating myself, in an attempt to let my scrapers handle timeout errors.

For every link or button that I click, i add a rescue Exception => e and refresh the page.

For example

browser.link(:xpath, "//tr[@class='pager'][1]/td/a").when_present.click

turns into

begin
  browser.link(:xpath, "//tr[@class='pager'][1]/td/a").wait_until_present
  browser.link(:xpath, "//tr[@class='pager'][1]/td/a").click
rescue Exception => e
  sleep (10)
  puts "timed out, let's refresh"
  browser.refresh
end

Perhaps there is a cleaner, non-repetitive solution. I've tried manipulating the Watir::wait but I could not get that to work..

class Watir::Wait
  alias_method :__do_wait, :wait_until
  def wait_until
    begin
      __do_wait{ yield }
    rescue Exception => e
      puts "timed out. let's refresh"
      $browser.refresh
    end
  end
end

Answer 1

Sorry for my enlish, i'm french.... lol this script allows to refresh browser without to skip a step, for exemple when you have to login, you can't skip a step..... and if you have a website with too many connexion with a low bandwhith.....

I think that seeb would do this :

module Watir

class WhenPresentDecorator
def method_missing(m, *args, &block)
  unless @element.respond_to?(m)
    raise NoMethodError, "undefined method `#{m}' for #{@element.inspect}:#   {@element.class}"
  end

  begin
    while !@element.present? 
     sleep(10)
    puts "timed out, let's refresh"
    @element.browser.refresh
    end
   rescue

   else
     @element.__send__(m, *args, &block)
   end
      end
     end # WhenPresentDecorator  
   end