From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-12-21T15:52:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Scheduling alarms

Hi,

At Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:24:50 +0900,
> Google found a post by Dave Thomas from 2001 [ruby-talk:16527] which
> sugests the use of a thread to schedule the alarm. Is this still the
> prefered  way to do this?

You can also use timeout.rb.

  require 'timeout'
  begin
    Timeout.timeout(2) do
      line = gets
      puts "You said #{line}"
    end
  rescue Timeout::Error
    puts "too slow!"
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada