cinch is not thread-safe

[dcu]

it can fail if you use threads in plugins.
actually I think plugins(rules) should be executed in threads and maybe allow to set a timeout option

something like

Timeout.timeout(timeout_option) do
Thread.start do
blk.call(...)
end
end

[leejarvis]

Unfortunately the current gem version of Cinch does not support Threads. We will soon be releasing version 1.0.0, which is likely to provide backwards incompatible changes, but will support threading inside plugins, and a nice modular plugin interface.

See here and check out the merge branch of Cinch to see what the new version will support. It will most likely be released in the next couple of days. Before updating please be sure to re-configure your Cinch based bots.

Thanks

[dominikh]

To make things clear, we will not only support threading inside plugins, but plugins themselves will be executed in threads. Without any kind of timeout, though.

Imho, it's the responsibility of the plugin developer to take care of timeouts, especially because it will not hurt if a plugin call takes forever since they will be running concurrently, anyway.

[dcu]

ok I agree. so I should use the 'merge' branch for now..