From: Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@...>
Date: 2005-12-06T02:01:47+09:00
Subject: Re: limiting how long a method is permiited to run

Brian Buckley wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there a means of limiting how long a method is permiited to run?  I
> want to be able to mark a method with a number and have the method
> throw, say, a TooMuchTimeException if the running time exceeds this
> number.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/timeout/rdoc/