Frederick Cheung wrote: > On Mar 31, 3:41�pm, Danimal <fightonfightw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The flip-side may make more sense, while I think of it: spawn a thread >> to do the FTP connection and have your main thread sleep 30 seconds. >> Then have the main thread check the status and if need be kill the FTP >> connection or the child thread altogether. >> > which is basically what > http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/timeout/rdoc/index.html > does > > Fred
Thanks for all the quick informative responses" I got the Timeout class working it appears to solve the problem nicely. I am doing this task 'outside' my rails app using the "background plugin" it seems to be working well so far. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
