How do I set the socket timeout in Ruby?

Question

How do you set the timeout for blocking operations on a Ruby socket?

Answer 1

The solution I found which appears to work is to use Timeout::timeout:

require 'timeout'
    ...
begin 
    timeout(5) do
        message, client_address = some_socket.recvfrom(1024)
    end
rescue Timeout::Error
    puts "Timed out!"
end