Usage of Timeout#timeout

1. code.rb

require 'timeout'

begin
  Timeout.timeout(1) do
    # spending time doing, say, an IO operation accross the network
    sleep 2
  end
rescue
  puts "Getting the big file took too long. Try again later."
end

2. output.txt

➔ ruby code.rb 
Getting the big file took too long. Try again later.