Basic Retry Mechanism using redo

flaky.rb

# frozen_string_literal: true

backoff = 0.2
retries = 0
MAX_RETRIES = 5

flaky = lambda do
  flaky_call = rand(10)

  return if flaky_call == 1

  puts "#flaky failed, retrying in #{backoff.round(2)} seconds.."

  sleep backoff

  backoff += (backoff * 1.5)

  retries += 1

  # restart the block, wooow :)
  redo if retries < MAX_RETRIES

  puts '#flaky error, aborting'
end

flaky.call