Doberman

Doberman is your favorite watchdog timer. It makes sure your code is still alive, barking out loud if there's silence for too long.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'doberman'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install doberman

Usage

begin
  watchdog = Doberman::WatchDog.new(:timeout => 3)
  watchdog.start
  sleep 2
  watchdog.ping
  sleep 2
  watchdog.ping
  sleep 2
  watchdog.stop
  puts "yay! no barking!"
rescue Doberman::WatchDog::Timeout => e
  puts "woof woof!"
end
# => yay! no barking!

begin
  watchdog = Doberman::WatchDog.new(:timeout => 3)
  watchdog.start
  watchdog.ping
  sleep 4
  watchdog.stop
  puts "yay! no barking!"
rescue Doberman::WatchDog::Timeout => e
  puts "woof woof!"
end
# => woof woof!

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/mateusdelbianco/doberman/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request