From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T05:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Checking for Network Connection

I'm sure there is a timeout option for the socket call, or you could
just do something like this:

require 'timeout'
timeout(10) do
  # connect
end

On 8/30/06, Matt Todd <chiology@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks... that was also a solution I had thought about, but couldn't
> really manifest with my limited experience.
>
> I'm not exactly sure how to do a timeout loop... or, rather, what you
> mean. Do you want me to try three times? Or perhaps to say "timeout
> after this amount of time"? Is that part of TCPSocket#new ?
>
> :D
>
> M.T.
>
>