From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2007-08-13T23:04:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout::Error - catchable?

Le 13 ao�t � 15:48, Rik Hemsley a �crit :

> The interpreter stops with the following:
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54: execution expired (Timeout::Error)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
>         from test.rb:21

Why don't you simply rescue Timeout::Error ?

Timeout::timeout(1) do
  begin
    sleep(5)
  rescue Timeout::Error
    puts "rescued"
  end
end

Fred
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