app blocked forever on unrelieble connection

We've been using the gem for a while, all works nicely, except for the fact that
it seems like even a short connection unreliability (e.g. packets lost, short VPN or wifi disconnection) during a query execution could block the whole application into an infinite loop.

has anyone else noticed this? ideas, how to solve it?

we also have a few of moderately slow queries (few minutes to 0,5h), so ideally the `timeout mechanism` should check if the query is still running...