SafeTimeout

A safer alternative to Ruby's Timeout that uses unix processes instead of threads

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'safe_timeout'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install safe_timeout

Usage

SafeTimeout is a drop-in replacement for Ruby's Timeout.

SafeTimeout.timeout(2) do
  # Something that may take a while
  # Possible Timeout::Error raised
end

or

SafeTimeout.timeout(10, CustomTimeoutError) do
  # Something that may take a while
  # Possible CustomTimeoutError raised
end

If one wishes this to be even more of a drop-in replacement one could add the following to the top of an application:

Timeout = SafeTimeout

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/safe_timeout/fork )
  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 a new Pull Request