From: Rico Knoop <jointgek@...>
Date: 2010-03-26T20:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: user input timeout.

Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Rico Knoop <jointgek@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> if input == "empty"
>> �puts "no input"
>> else
>> �puts input
>> end
>>
>> all i want it to do is wait like 10 seconds and if there has bin no user
>> input it should just continue with input= "empty"
>>
>> i feel like i'm missing something real simple
> 
> Timeout is in the standard lib:
> 
> require 'timeout'
> 
> begin
>         answer = Timeout::timeout(5) do
>                 gets
>         end
> rescue Timeout::Error
>         answer = "empty"
> end
> 
> puts answer
> 
> Jesus.


it didn't seem to work,
it just kept waiting for me to input something.
i even tried to run just that code.
its still blinking, waiting for input on the background.

am i doing something wrong?
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