SafeTimeout

• README: https://github.com/david-mccullars/safe_timeout
• Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/david-mccullars/safe_timeout
• Bug Reports: https://github.com/david-mccullars/safe_timeout/issues

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

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'safe_timeout'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install safe_timeout

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

MIT. See the {file:LICENSE} file.