runaway

Spin off work into child processes and terminate it on time. If you need the process to be done within a certain time period (and if it takes longer it probably is hanging):

Runaway.spin(must_quit_within: 15) do # ensures termination within 15 seconds
  `/bin/proprietary_render_server/bin/render --put-server-on-fire=yes`
end

If the child process quits with the exit code of 0 it is considered a “clean” termination. Anything else (any non-zero exit status) is considered a failure in the child process and will cause an exception to be raised in the master.

The spin method in the master blocks until the child process terminates.

Contributing to runaway

Copyright © 2016 Julik Tarkhanov. See LICENSE.txt for further details.