Ruby in a Nutshell

Name

timeout — Time out a lengthy procedure

Synopsis

Times out a lengthy procedure or those that continue execution beyond a set duration.

Required Library

require ‘timeout’

Function

timeout(sec) {...}

Executes the block and returns true if the block execution terminates successfully prior to elapsing of the timeout period, otherwise immediately terminates execution of the block and raises a TimeoutError exception.

require 'timeout'
status = timeout(5) {
  # something that may take time
}