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Automatically retry calls on 429 rate limiting

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#168 7 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reading issue #167 and tracing how this Ruby client performs Slack API calls and handles responses. Define the retry behavior for HTTP 429 responses, including when the work is complete, then verify it against the existing request tests if available.

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Description

new feature

Followup from #167

Dominant language
Ruby
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Merged PRs (30d)
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