Ruby Timeout::timeout doesn't fire Exception and doesn't return what documented

Question

I have this piece of code:

begin
  complete_results = Timeout.timeout(4) do      
    results = platform.search(artist, album_name)
  end
rescue Timeout::Error
           


        

Answer 1

Your code is correct

require 'timeout'
begin
  complete_results = Timeout.timeout(1) do      
   sleep(2)
  end
rescue Timeout::Error
  puts 'Print me something please'
end

does print out "print me something please".

Try the basic code as above. If that works, you have an issue in platform.search.