Timer class-newbie

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I know nothing of the timer class and I want to have my ruby app wake up
in 30 minutes (or more) and have a handler for it..I don't want to spin
in a sleep loop waiting 30 minutes - can timer class handle this?

Examples welcome or point me to a web page that has examples

Thanks in advance

Joe

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I don't believe there is a built-in ruby timer class per se.

What you might try is a combination of Thread and Kernel.sleep()
such as

t = Thread.new {
  # bulk of your app goes here
}

sleep(1800) # take a half hour snooze

# time to take action such as
t.kill

Dan Nachbar

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On Sep 25, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Joe Collins wrote:

I know nothing of the timer class and I want to have my ruby app wake up
in 30 minutes (or more) and have a handler for it..I don't want to spin
in a sleep loop waiting 30 minutes - can timer class handle this?

Examples welcome or point me to a web page that has examples

Thanks in advance

Joe

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http://systemtimer.rubyforge.org/