== DESCRIPTION: The RightScale Slicehost gem has been designed to provide a robust interface to Slicehost's existing API. == FEATURES/PROBLEMS: - Full programmatic access to the Slicehost API. - Complete error handling: all operations check for errors and report complete error information by raising a SlicehostError. - Persistent HTTP connections with robust network-level retry layer using Rightscale::HttpConnection. This includes socket timeouts and retries. - Robust HTTP-level retry layer. Certain (user-adjustable) HTTP errors returned by Slicehost are classified as temporary errors. These errors are automaticallly retried using exponentially increasing intervals. The number of retries is user-configurable. == INSTALL: