execution timeout
require 'timeout' status = Timeout::timeout(5) { # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time... }
A way of performing a potentially long-running operation in a thread, and terminating it’s execution if it hasn’t finished by a fixed amount of time.
Previous versions of timeout didn’t provide use a module for namespace. This version provides both Timeout.timeout, and a backwards-compatible timeout.
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