timer examples

[Mathspeedy]

Hi !
I think the title says it all,
I would like to see some timer examples,
just for fun =D

 

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 22. Jul 2009, 07:25:14 +0900 schrieb Mathspeedy:

I think the title says it all,
I would like to see some timer examples,

I examined the whole interpreter source code and could not find
any way to call alarm() or setitimer() by Ruby methods. I really
miss that!

Bertram

 

[Xeno Campanoli]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 22. Jul 2009, 07:25:14 +0900 schrieb Mathspeedy:

I examined the whole interpreter source code and could not find
any way to call alarm() or setitimer() by Ruby methods. I really
miss that!

Bertram

There's a Timeout method I use that has been superior to anything I could find
in Python, and was a reason for me using Ruby instead at one point:

begin
Timeout::timeout(OverallTimeout) do |tl|
# Until I find out what this is, Screw it!
# No doc on tl anymore!
#puts "tl: #{tl}"
probe_threads.each { |t| t.join }
puts "All probe threads collected."
end
rescue Timeout::Error => eo
puts "#{eo.message}, exiting before joining all probe threads."
end

As you see by my comment above, some of the docs are not to my satisfaction.
Still, I have been using this happily since 2007.

 

[spox]

Hi !
I think the title says it all,
I would like to see some timer examples,
just for fun =D

I have a simple timer library I use regularly. You can find the project page
here:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/actiontimer

and the source stuff on github:

http://github.com/spox/actiontimer