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Adding a Timeout to a Long-Running Operation
CodeExpectedActual
require 'timeout'
before = Time.now
begin
  status = Timeout.timeout(5) { sleep }
rescue Timeout::Error
  puts "I only slept for #{Time.now-before} seconds."
end
 
I only slept for 5.035492 seconds.
 
I only slept for 5.011398 seconds.
 
def count_for_five_seconds
  $counter = 0
  begin
    Timeout::timeout(5) { loop { $counter += 1 } }
  rescue Timeout::Error
    puts "I can count to #{$counter} in 5 seconds."
  end
end
count_for_five_seconds
 
I can count to 2532825 in 5 seconds.
 
I can count to 2575012 in 5 seconds.
 
$counter
 2532825 2575012