Jabber client authentication hangs

[akshaysmurthy]

I have the following method in a class called Chat. As the name suggests, the method intends to create a chat room for a set of usernames passed, along with configurations for the room. But the statement "chat_client.auth" gets stuck at times. I am saying this because the last log I see is "**Authorizing client". Is there something that I am not doing right?

def self.create_room_for(options)
        Rails.logger.info "\n**Creating room for #{options}\n"  
        chat_room_name = "#{options[:chat_usernames].join('_')}@conference.#{CHAT_SERVER_DOMAIN}/localclient"
        begin
            chat_username = options[:chat_usernames].first
            Rails.logger.info "Creating JID"
            chat_client = Jabber::Client.new(Jabber::JID::new("#{chat_username}@#{CHAT_SERVER_DOMAIN}"))
            Rails.logger.info "Connecting to Chat server"
            chat_client.allow_tls = false
            chat_client.connect
            Rails.logger.info "\n**Authorizing client\n" #Nothing gets logged beyond this
            chat_client.auth("some_password")
            muc = Jabber::MUC::MUCClient.new(chat_client)
            Rails.logger.info "\n**Joining room\n"
            muc.join(Jabber::JID::new(chat_room_name))
            muc.configure("muc#roomconfig_persistentroom" => 1, "muc#roomconfig_enablelogging" => 1, "muc#roomconfig_publicroom" => options[:public_room]) if muc.owner?
        rescue Exception => e
            Airbrake.notify(e)
        ensure
            muc.exit
            chat_client.close
        end  
    end