This project is no longer maintained. You probably should not use it; you certainly shouldn't use it if you require precise timing. If anyone would like to take over ownership, drop me a line.

EasyTimers

A simple interface for creating timers with callbacks that handles all the threading for you.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'easy_timers'

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install easy_timers

Usage

Create a new group of timers with EasyTimers::Timers.new:

require 'easy_timers'

timers = EasyTimers::Timers.new

Schedule a timer to execute 10 seconds from now with EasyTimers::Timers#after:

timers.after(10) { puts "Hello world" }

Now timers has a single timer that will call its block in ten seconds.

You can also supply a ruby Time object instead of an interval.

the_future = Time.now + 10
timers.after(the_future) { put "Ten seconds have passed." }

If you want to be able to cancel a specific timer, you should give it a name:

timers.after(60, :one_minute) { puts "It's been 60 seconds." }
# do some work and decide to change our mind
timers.cancel(:one_minute)

If you'd rather not mint your own names, one will be generated for you:

timer_name = timers.after(10) { puts "hai" }
timers.cancel(timer_name)

You can also create periodic timers with EasyTimers::Timers#every:

timer_name = timers.every(1) { puts "One second has passed." }

Periodic timers will be scheduled repeatedly until cancelled.

Need a combination of the above? You can schedule a period timer to start at a certain time, then scheduled repeatedly using a different interval:

timer_name = timers.after_then_every(0.5, 0.1, :my_timer) { puts "tic toc" }

The above timer will first fire after half a second, then fire every 0.1 seconds thereafter.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/malakai97/easy_timers/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 a new Pull Request