Ruby Thread with "watchdog"
- by Sergio Campamá
I'm implementing a ruby server for handling sockets being created from GPRS modules. The thing is that when the module powers down, there's no indication that the socket closed.
I'm doing threads to handle multiple sockets with the same server. What I'm asking is this: Is there a way to use a timer inside a thread, reset it after every socket input, and that if it hits the timeout, closes the thread? Where can I find more information about this?
EDIT: Code example that doesn't detect the socket closing
require 'socket'
server = TCPServer.open(41000)
loop do
Thread.start(server.accept) do |client|
puts "Client connected"
begin
loop do
line = client.readline
open('log.txt', 'a') { |f|
f.puts line.strip
}
end
rescue
puts "Client disconnected"
end
end
end
