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Asked: 2026-05-16T15:24:22+00:00

been trying to understand how to implement a timeout detection to a ruby TCP

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been trying to understand how to implement a timeout detection to a ruby TCP server of mine. Mainly because sometimes clients with instable internet lose connection and i need my server to detect it.

The idea is to teach my server to detect when a connection had been silent for longer than 30 seconds and abort it. I’ve been trying to use timeout, but it terminates the program, so i need to use something like a simple timer that will just return an integer of seconds passed since the activation of the said timer.

Is there an already made solution for that? Sorry if it is a stupid question, it’s just that googling it led me nowhere.
ps: using ruby 1.8 here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The ‘Time’ object can report the number of seconds past by comparing it to previously created instances. Consider:

    require 'time'

t0 = Time.now
sleep(2)
t1 = Time.now
t1.to_f - t0.to_f # => 2.00059294700623

    So by creating a “last transmission” time object then checking its difference from “now” you can determine the number of seconds passed and act accordingly.

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