ruby timeouts and system commands

Question

I have a ruby timeout that calls a system (bash) command like this..

Timeout::timeout(10) {
  `my_bash_command -c12 -o text.txt`
}

but I th

Answer 1

Handling processes, signals and timers is not very easy. That's why you might consider delegating this task: Use the command timeout on new versions of Linux:

timeout --kill-after 5s 10s my_bash_command -c12 -o text.txt