From: Matt Todd <chiology@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T05:44:08+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

Sweet! I didn't know that library existed! You learn something new every day.

Thanks guys.

M.T.