selenium

def create_button
    @driver.find_element(:link, 'Create')
  end

  def create_button_click
    @wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(timeout: 8)
    puts 'DEBUG: Clicking Create Button'
    create_button.click
    puts 'DEBUG: Waiting for View This Challenge'
    @wait.until { @driver.find_element(:link, 'view this challenge') }
    puts 'DEBUG: Found view challenge link'
    rescue
    puts 'DEBUG: Rescue: Clicking Create Button'
    create_button.click
    @wait.until { @driver.find_element(:link, 'view this challenge') }
    puts 'DEBUG: Found view challenge link'
  end

Yeah there is something weird going on with my waits. I had the same problem with wait not set as a instance var as well. I moved to a instance var to aid in some trouble shooting.

The implicit wait i moved to 30 seconds and I still see the explicit one at 60 seconds, which is prob http like you stated.
@driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 30

I added
client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 120 # seconds

as a work around it just takes a while :-)

The rescue is there to attempt the click again if the first one fails.