A way to handle looong executions?

Rails
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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.

Hunter Peress
[email protected]
Web Programmer
The Santa Fe New Mexican, Inc.

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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

-a

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