Path: | lib/timeout.rb |
Last Update: | Thu Jul 11 05:43:10 +0000 2013 |
A way of performing a potentially long-running operation in a thread, and terminating it‘s execution if it hasn‘t finished within fixed amount of time.
Previous versions of timeout didn‘t use a module for namespace. This version provides both Timeout.timeout, and a backwards-compatible timeout.
require 'timeout' status = Timeout::timeout(5) { # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time... }
TimeoutError | = | Timeout::Error # :nodoc: | Another name for Timeout::Error, defined for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of timeout.rb. |