Ruby programming: skip If statement if taking too long to complete

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How would I program a script to proceed to a function, if an if statement takes far too long to complete?

I am currently in a situation, where a chunk of code (depending on the network) can take anywhere from half a second, to half an hour to complete, and I am researching a code patch which would cause the code to skip the if statement and proceed to a new code function if it takes over 10 seconds to complete.

I suspect that the answer may lie within threads, however I am unsure as its a programming concept with which I have no experience. I am open to any answers, no matter how elaborate.

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/timeout/rdoc/Timeout.html — dfb, Oct 10 '15 at 00:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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An idiomatic solution is to use Timeout::timeout.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/231662/393701 for an answer fitting your question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Oct 10 '15 at 00:14

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