Excuse the self reply - something that comes in handy is to capture
the exit status of the external application. To do this use
$?.exitstatus

%x{echo "Hello World"}
puts $?.exitstatus

On Apr 15, 8:15 am, BenH <benh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> you may try something along this line:
>
> timeout(10) do
>   %x{sleep 12}
> end
>
> rescue Timeout::Error
>   # Do something to handle the time out.
>   puts "The sleep command timed out"
> end
>
> Hope that gets you going in a good direction.
> BenH
>
> On Apr 15, 7:41 am, Svetlana Vt <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
> wrote:
>
> > how i can follow to execute external programs: define, that they don't
> > hung with Kernel method system or another? may be use timeout?
>
> > excuse me for my bad english :)
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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