From: Dan Nachbar <dan@...>
Date: 2011-09-26T00:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: timer class-newbie

On Sep 25, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Joe Collins wrote:

> I know nothing of the timer class and I want to have my ruby app wake up
> in 30 minutes (or more) and have a handler for it..I don't want to spin
> in a sleep loop waiting 30 minutes - can timer class handle this?
> 
> Examples welcome or point me to a web page that has examples
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Joe

I don't believe there is a built-in ruby timer class per se.

What you might try is a combination of Thread and Kernel.sleep()
such as

t = Thread.new {
  # bulk of your app goes here
}

sleep(1800)		# take a half hour snooze

# time to take action such as
t.kill

Dan Nachbar