# module Timeout

`Timeout` long-running blocks

## Synopsis¶ ↑

    require 'timeout'
    status = Timeout.timeout(5) {
      # Something that should be interrupted if it takes more than 5 seconds...
    }

## Description¶ ↑

`Timeout` provides a way to auto-terminate a potentially long-running operation if it hasn’t finished in a fixed amount of time.

## Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright

  © 2000 Network Applied Communication Laboratory, Inc.

Copyright

  © 2000 Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan

### Constants

VERSION

  The version

### Public Class Methods

timeout (sec, klass = nil, message = nil) { |sec| ... }
Source

    # File lib/timeout.rb, line 167
    def timeout(sec, klass = nil, message = nil, &block)   #:yield: +sec+
      return yield(sec) if sec == nil or sec.zero?
      raise ArgumentError, "Timeout sec must be a non-negative number" if 0 > sec

      message ||= "execution expired"

      if Fiber.respond_to?(:current_scheduler) && (scheduler = Fiber.current_scheduler)&.respond_to?(:timeout_after)
        return scheduler.timeout_after(sec, klass || Error, message, &block)
      end

      Timeout.ensure_timeout_thread_created
      perform = Proc.new do |exc|
        request = Request.new(Thread.current, sec, exc, message)
        QUEUE_MUTEX.synchronize do
          QUEUE << request
          CONDVAR.signal
        end
        begin
          return yield(sec)
        ensure
          request.finished
        end
      end

      if klass
        perform.call(klass)
      else
        Error.handle_timeout(message, &perform)
      end
    end

Perform an operation in a block, raising an error if it takes longer than `sec` seconds to complete.

`sec`

  Number of seconds to wait for the block to terminate. Any non-negative number or nil may be used, including Floats to specify fractional seconds. A value of 0 or `nil` will execute the block without any timeout. Any negative number will raise an `ArgumentError`.

`klass`

  `Exception` `Class` to raise if the block fails to terminate in `sec` seconds. Omitting will use the default, `Timeout::Error`

`message`

  `Error` message to raise with `Exception` `Class`. Omitting will use the default, “execution expired”

Returns the result of the block if the block completed before `sec` seconds, otherwise throws an exception, based on the value of `klass`.

The exception thrown to terminate the given block cannot be rescued inside the block unless `klass` is given explicitly. However, the block can use ensure to prevent the handling of the exception. For that reason, this method cannot be relied on to enforce timeouts for untrusted blocks.

If a scheduler is defined, it will be used to handle the timeout by invoking Scheduler#timeout_after.

Note that this is both a method of module `Timeout`, so you can `include Timeout` into your classes so they have a `timeout` method, as well as a module method, so you can call it directly as `Timeout.timeout()`.

### Private Instance Methods

timeout (sec, klass = nil, message = nil) { |sec| ... }
Source

    # File lib/timeout.rb, line 167
    def timeout(sec, klass = nil, message = nil, &block)   #:yield: +sec+
      return yield(sec) if sec == nil or sec.zero?
      raise ArgumentError, "Timeout sec must be a non-negative number" if 0 > sec

      message ||= "execution expired"

      if Fiber.respond_to?(:current_scheduler) && (scheduler = Fiber.current_scheduler)&.respond_to?(:timeout_after)
        return scheduler.timeout_after(sec, klass || Error, message, &block)
      end

      Timeout.ensure_timeout_thread_created
      perform = Proc.new do |exc|
        request = Request.new(Thread.current, sec, exc, message)
        QUEUE_MUTEX.synchronize do
          QUEUE << request
          CONDVAR.signal
        end
        begin
          return yield(sec)
        ensure
          request.finished
        end
      end

      if klass
        perform.call(klass)
      else
        Error.handle_timeout(message, &perform)
      end
    end

Perform an operation in a block, raising an error if it takes longer than `sec` seconds to complete.

`sec`

  Number of seconds to wait for the block to terminate. Any non-negative number or nil may be used, including Floats to specify fractional seconds. A value of 0 or `nil` will execute the block without any timeout. Any negative number will raise an `ArgumentError`.

`klass`

  `Exception` `Class` to raise if the block fails to terminate in `sec` seconds. Omitting will use the default, `Timeout::Error`

`message`

  `Error` message to raise with `Exception` `Class`. Omitting will use the default, “execution expired”

Returns the result of the block if the block completed before `sec` seconds, otherwise throws an exception, based on the value of `klass`.

The exception thrown to terminate the given block cannot be rescued inside the block unless `klass` is given explicitly. However, the block can use ensure to prevent the handling of the exception. For that reason, this method cannot be relied on to enforce timeouts for untrusted blocks.

If a scheduler is defined, it will be used to handle the timeout by invoking Scheduler#timeout_after.

Note that this is both a method of module `Timeout`, so you can `include Timeout` into your classes so they have a `timeout` method, as well as a module method, so you can call it directly as `Timeout.timeout()`.