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

The problem is that platform.search is catching the exception that Timeout#timeout throws.

You can get around this by wrapping your inner code in another thread -- YMMV.

begin
  complete_results = Timeout.timeout(4) do
    Thread.new{ results = platform.search(artist, album_name) }.value
  end
rescue Timeout::Error
  puts 'Print me something please'
end