SaneTimeout

TODO: Write a gem description

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sane_timeout'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sane_timeout

Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions here

Open Questions

• on line 69, I had tried doing x.join based on the standard lib doing the same thing with the y thread. I assumed that kill is not synchromous so it's necessary to wait for x to die. However, doing this causes many things to break. I haven't been able to figure out why.
• related, is there any reason to kill y before returning x.value?

To Do

• determine best way to install sane_timeout so that it replaces Timeout. possibly offer to modes, one where Timeout is overwritten, another where sane_timeout is invoked in its own namespace (SaneTimeout)

Code Improvement

• remove the weird inner exception catching/filtering entirely?

Project Improvement

• better name?
• There is redundant code between test_timeout.rb and test_sane_timeout.rb because I wanted to annotate in the former and be DRY in the latter. Maybe this can somehow be improved.
• hyphen or underscore?

odd design choice in standard lib:

• same type of error is raised inside thread and outside when specified
• when not specified, Exception is raised inside, StandardError is raised outside