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Tell Ruby Program to Wait some amount of time
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Problem
How do you tell a Ruby program to wait an arbitrary amount of time before moving on to the next line of code?
Solution
Like this:
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Also, if you're writing this within a Rails app, or have included the ActiveSupport library in your project, you can construct longer intervals using the following convenience syntax:
sleep(num_secs)The
num_secs value can be an integer or float.Also, if you're writing this within a Rails app, or have included the ActiveSupport library in your project, you can construct longer intervals using the following convenience syntax:
sleep(4.minutes)
# or, even longer...
sleep(2.hours); sleep(3.days) # etc., etc.
# or shorter
sleep(0.5) # half a secondCode Snippets
sleep(num_secs)sleep(4.minutes)
# or, even longer...
sleep(2.hours); sleep(3.days) # etc., etc.
# or shorter
sleep(0.5) # half a secondContext
Stack Overflow Q#1329967, score: 808
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