Timers

Collections of one-shot and periodic timers, intended for use with event loops such as async.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'timers'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install timers

Usage

Create a new timer group with Timers::Group.new:

require 'timers'

timers = Timers::Group.new

Schedule a proc to run after 5 seconds with Timers::Group#after:

five_second_timer = timers.after(5) { puts "Take five" }

The five_second_timer variable is now bound to a Timers::Timer object. To cancel a timer, use Timers::Timer#cancel

Once you've scheduled a timer, you can wait until the next timer fires with Timers::Group#wait:

# Waits 5 seconds
timers.wait

# The script will now print "Take five"

You can schedule a block to run periodically with Timers::Group#every:

every_five_seconds = timers.every(5) { puts "Another 5 seconds" }

loop { timers.wait }

You can also schedule a block to run immediately and periodically with Timers::Group#now_and_every:

now_and_every_five_seconds = timers.now_and_every(5) { puts "Now and in another 5 seconds" }

loop { timers.wait }

If you'd like another method to do the waiting for you, e.g. Kernel.select, you can use Timers::Group#wait_interval to obtain the amount of time to wait. When a timeout is encountered, you can fire all pending timers with Timers::Group#fire:

loop do
  interval = timers.wait_interval
  ready_readers, ready_writers = select readers, writers, nil, interval

  if ready_readers || ready_writers
    # Handle IO
    ...
  else
    # Timeout!
    timers.fire
  end
end

You can also pause and continue individual timers, or all timers:

paused_timer = timers.every(5) { puts "I was paused" }

paused_timer.pause
10.times { timers.wait } # will not fire paused timer

paused_timer.resume
10.times { timers.wait } # will fire timer

timers.pause
10.times { timers.wait } # will not fire any timers

timers.resume
10.times { timers.wait } # will fire all timers

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

Released under the MIT license.

Copyright, 2018, by Samuel G. D. Williams.
Copyright, 2016, by Tony Arcieri.
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Copyright, 2016, by Jesse Cooke.
Copyright, 2016, by Nicholas Evans.
Copyright, 2016, by Dimitrij Denissenko.
Copyright, 2016, by Ryan LeCompte.

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