sleep until condition is true in ruby

Question

Is there any better way in Ruby to sleep until some condition is true ?

loop do 
  sleep(1)
  if ready_to_go
    break
  end
end

Answer 1

You can use the waitutil gem as described at http://rubytools.github.io/waitutil/, e.g.

require 'waitutil'

WaitUtil.wait_for_condition("my_event to happen", 
                            :timeout_sec => 30,
                            :delay_sec => 0.5) do
  check_if_my_event_happened
end