From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2010-07-14T17:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: gets() -- Need to skip when no response after 20seconds

Le 14 juillet � 08:22, Raveendran .P a �crit :

> Need:
> 
> a=gets() is waiting for input. I need to wait only 20 seconds. 

Look at the Timeout standard library :

begin
  Timeout.timeout(20) do
    a = gets()
  end
rescue Timeout::Error
  puts "Timeout.  20 seconds gone, etc"
end

Fred
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