From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-08-14T04:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: timeouts with threads and SIGALRM

Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> I realized that this probably should have been my first suggestion:
> how about using the standard 'timeout' module to accomplish the same
> thing?
> 
> Ex:
> 
> require 'timeout'
> 
> begin
>   timeout(TIMELIMIT) do
>     my_sometimes_too_long_method()
>   end
> rescue Timeout::Error
>   # Handle timeout here
     main_thread.raise WhateverException
> end

This addition lets you handle the exception in your main thread.