Rails - Dec 2005 - A way to handle looong executions?

Is there somewhere I can specify a maximum execution time for a given
request. (Eg, someone does something in my application that brings about
and infinite loop). The idea of potentially huge queries or even a  
programmer mistake
is not impossible, and I have a hard time accepting that I will  
release an
application that has no way of handling that.


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Hunter Peress
hunterp-hceJc2YFNylFcjXmduoLkw@public.gmane.org
Web Programmer
The Santa Fe New Mexican, Inc.

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Hunter Peress wrote:
> Is there somewhere I can specify a maximum execution time for a given
> request. (Eg, someone does something in my application that brings about
> and infinite loop). The idea of potentially huge queries or even a
programmer
> mistake
> is not impossible, and I have a hard time accepting that I will release an
> application that has no way of handling that.
[ahoward@jib ahoward]$ ruby -e'' require "timeout" and
Timeout::timeout(2){ sleep 42 } ''
/dmsp/reference/ruby-1.8.1//lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42: execution expired
(Timeout::Error)
         from -e:1:in `timeout''
         from -e:1

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