rescue Timeouts with SystemTimer - ruby

I'm using the SystemTimer gem to deal with timeout problems.
https://github.com/ph7/system-timer
I can't find a way to catch the Exception when a Timeout
begin
SystemTimer.timeout_after(10.seconds) do
# facebook api
rest_graph.fql(query)
end
rescue RestGraph::Error::InvalidAccessToken
return nil
rescue Timeout::Error
# never executed
end
But the last Exception Timeout::Error is never triggered.

Why not use Timeout, which comes with 1.9.2 and is designed to do this?
require 'timeout'
status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
# Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
}

Try this: (based on your link)
class TimedOut < StandardError
end
begin
SystemTimer.timeout_after(10.seconds, TimedOut) do
# ...
end
rescue TimedOut
# ...
end

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ruby how to stop the execution after rescue

I have a func where when an exception was raised, I am rescuing it.
But the program continues to the next line and calls the next func create_request
But when there is exception, I do not want to continue
def validate_request_code options
if check_everything is good
#code to validate
else
errors << "something is gone bad"
end
[errors.size == 0, errors.size == 0 ? options : raise(ArgumentError, "Error while validating #{errors}")]
end
I am trying to catch/rescue the exception
def validate_request options
begin
validate_request_code options
rescue ArgumentError => e
log :error
rescue Exception => e
log :error
end
sleep 20
if options['action'] == "create"
create_request options
end
end
If by 'not continue' you mean that you want the original error to continue (i.e., you just want to take action on the way by), you can call raise inside the rescue block, which re-raises the original error.
def foo
begin
# stuff
rescue StandardError => e
# handle error
raise
end
end
You can also simply return from within the rescue block as well.
def foo
begin
# stuff
rescue StandardError => e
# handle error
return some_value
end
end
As an aside, generally you want to rescue StandardError rather than Exception. All the things that you can reasonably handle within your application are covered under the StandardError. The things outside that are things like out-of-memory, etc., that are outside your control.

Sidekiq transient vs fatal errors

Is there a way to err from a Sidekiq job in a way that tells Sidekiq that "this error is fatal and unrecoverable, do not retry, send it straight to dead job queue"?
Looking at Sidekiq Error Handling documentation, it seems like it interpret all errors as transient, and will retry a job (if retry is enabled) regardless of the error type.
You should rescue those specific errors and not re-raise them.
def perform
call_something
rescue CustomException
nil
end
Edit:
Well, if you want to purposely send a message to the DLQ/DJQ, you'd need to make a method that does what #send_to_morgue does. I'm sure Mike Perham is going to come in here and yell at me for suggesting this but...
def send_to_morgue(msg)
Sidekiq.logger.info { "Adding dead #{msg['class']} job #{msg['jid']}" }
payload = Sidekiq.dump_json(msg)
now = Time.now.to_f
Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
conn.multi do
conn.zadd('dead', now, payload)
conn.zremrangebyscore('dead', '-inf', now - DeadSet.timeout)
conn.zremrangebyrank('dead', 0, -DeadSet.max_jobs)
end
end
end
The only difference you'd have to dig into what msg looks like going into that method but I suspect it's what normally hits the middleware before parse.
If found on GitHub a solution for your problem. In that post they suggested to write a custom middleware that handles the exceptions you want to prevent retries for. This is a basic example:
def call(worker, msg, queue)
begin
yield
rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound => e
msg['retry'] = false
raise
end
end
You can extending that you get:
def call(worker, msg, queue)
begin
yield
rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound => e
msg['retry'] = false
raise
rescue Exception => e
if worker.respond_to?(:handle_error)
worker.handle_error(e)
else
raise
end
end
end

Timeout within a popen works, but popen inside a timeout doesn't?

It's easiest to explain in code:
require 'timeout'
puts "this block will properly kill the sleep after a second"
IO.popen("sleep 60") do |io|
begin
Timeout.timeout(1) do
while (line=io.gets) do
output += line
end
end
rescue Timeout::Error => ex
Process.kill 9, io.pid
puts "timed out: this block worked correctly"
end
end
puts "but this one blocks for >1 minute"
begin
pid = 0
Timeout.timeout(1) do
IO.popen("sleep 60") do |io|
pid = io.pid
while (line=io.gets) do
output += line
end
end
end
rescue Timeout::Error => ex
puts "timed out: the exception gets thrown, but much too late"
end
My mental model of the two blocks is identical:
So, what am I missing?
edit: drmaciver suggested on twitter that in the first case, for some reason, the pipe socket goes into non-blocking mode, but in the second it doesn't. I can't think of any reason why this would happen, nor can I figure out how to get the descriptor's flags, but it's at least a plausible answer? Working on that possibility.
Aha, subtle.
There is a hidden, blocking ensure clause at the end of the IO#popen block in the second case. The Timeout::Error is raised raised timely, but you cannot rescue it until execution returns from that implicit ensure clause.
Under the hood, IO.popen(cmd) { |io| ... } does something like this:
def my_illustrative_io_popen(cmd, &block)
begin
pio = IO.popen(cmd)
block.call(pio) # This *is* interrupted...
ensure
pio.close # ...but then control goes here, which blocks on cmd's termination
end
and the IO#close call is really more-or-less a pclose(3), which is blocking you in waitpid(2) until the sleeping child exits.
You can verify this like so:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'timeout'
BEGIN { $BASETIME = Time.now.to_i }
def xputs(msg)
puts "%4.2f: %s" % [(Time.now.to_f - $BASETIME), msg]
end
begin
Timeout.timeout(3) do
begin
xputs "popen(sleep 10)"
pio = IO.popen("sleep 10")
sleep 100 # or loop over pio.gets or whatever
ensure
xputs "Entering ensure block"
#Process.kill 9, pio.pid # <--- This would solve your problem!
pio.close
xputs "Leaving ensure block"
end
end
rescue Timeout::Error => ex
xputs "rescuing: #{ex}"
end
So, what can you do?
You'll have to do it the explicit way, since the interpreter doesn't expose a way to override the IO#popen ensure logic. You can use the above code as a starting template and uncomment the kill() line, for example.
In the first block, the timeout is raised in the child, killing it and returning control to the parent. In the second block, the timeout is raised in the parent. The child never gets the signal.
See io.c https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/io.c#L6021
and timeout.rb https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/lib/timeout.rb#L51

How to catch all exceptions as soon as they occur by just one rescue statement

I know how to catch the exceptions but what we do is to put "rescue" after a suspicious section of a code. what if you had a lot functions sending a query to mysql through mysql2 gem and you want to catch their exceptions. One thing you can do is to put a "rescue" statement in each of them. but i want to do that just by one rescue statement. So I put a "rescue" in end of code and put all of code in a "begin" and "end" but it didn't work.
Here is my code and as you see there is a problem in mysql query and just because of "rescue" being end of file, it doesn't catch the exception but when I put it after that query it works.
require 'mysql2'
require 'colored'
begin
def log(string)
p "["+string.cyan+"]"
end
def err
p "["+"FAIL".red+"]"
end
def done
p "["+"DONE".red+"]"
end
class SqlClient
def initialize()
log "SqlClient/initialize"
puts "Host: \n"
#host = gets.strip
puts "User: \n"
#user = gets.strip
puts "Pass: \n"
#pass = gets.strip
#client = Mysql2::Client.new(host: #host , username: #user , password: #pass)
end
def list_databases()
puts "We are listing your databases(not just projects) \n \n \n "
#client.query("ELECT SCHEMA_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA").each do |row|
p row["SCHEMA_NAME"]
end
puts "\n \n \n"
end
end
rescue Mysql2::Error
err
abort
end
`query': You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your
MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ELECT SCHEMA_NAME FROM
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA' at line 1 (Mysql2::Error)
I'm not looking for something like:
begin
# my code
rescue # this line is right after the code which is going to have problem and we catch it.
end
I'm looking for something like this:
begin
# first method
# second method
# thrid method
# rest of code and etc ...
# now this is end of file:
rescue
end
but as you saw in my code, it didn't work.
UPDATE: I found a similar question here and it seems there will be no answer :| maybe this is a sort of ruby Weakness.
if you want to see ANY error just use e for example
begin
# your call to a method of Mysql2 gem. for example:
client = Mysql2::Client.new(:host => "localhost", :username => "root", etc...)
rescue => e
puts e.message
puts e.backtrace.inspect
end
In order to catch every exception you'd need to wrap each method call with a begin rescue end. When an exception is raised it bails out of the execution so it wouldn't hit the next methods.
To catch all errors I guess I'd do something like this. Keep in mind, this is ugly and I'd recommend for you NOT to do this, but... if you want to try, maybe try something like this:
all_errors = []
# first method you call
begin
# some error might happen here
first_response = Mysql2::Client.new(:host => "localhost", :username => "root", etc...)
rescue => e
all_errors << e
end
# second method you call
begin
# some error might happen here
second_response = Mysql2::Client.new(:host => "localhost", :username => "root", etc...)
rescue => e
all_errors << e
end
puts all_errors.inspect
After a quick search I've found: (http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/the-simple-way-to-print-exceptions-in-ruby/)
# catch all exceptions (anything that derives from Exception)
begin
...
rescue Exception
puts $!, $#
end
You could use an at_exit handler, which has access to the last exception in $!
like
at_exit {
puts "the exception that killed us is", $!
}
If you want to catch Exceptions "as soon as they occur" (not after they're caught) you could use ruby's "debug mode" (which outputs messages when they occur to the console) or ruby-debug see Is there any way to start the Ruby debugger on exception?
Just wrap all your code in:
begin
#yourcode
#as much as you want
rescue
end
Nobody seemed to notice it but using rescue without a class will catch all StandardError and there are so much more.
If you want to catch ALL exceptions you need to do
begin
# your code where you call SqlClient.new etc
rescue Exception => e
puts "error raised"
puts [e, e.backtrace].flatten.join("\n")
end
List of all error classes:
Exception
NoMemoryError
ScriptError
LoadError
NotImplementedError
SyntaxError
SignalException
Interrupt
StandardError
ArgumentError
IOError
EOFError
IndexError
LocalJumpError
NameError
NoMethodError
RangeError
FloatDomainError
RegexpError
RuntimeError
SecurityError
SystemCallError
SystemStackError
ThreadError
TypeError
ZeroDivisionError
SystemExit
fatal
have you tried adding an at_exit method in your class? This would allow you to do something when ruby is exiting. like in this article.
Ruby at_exit
or
From Ruby 2.0 API Docs
However beware of cleverly rescuing from an exception!
You'll start pulling your hair out down the road (or another dev will) when you try to figure out why your code isn't failing when it should be failing. I prefer to fail massively with a bright shiny sign saying the code failed here! hehe.
Good luck!

Capturing Ctrl-c in ruby

I was passed a long running legacy ruby program, which has numerous occurrences of
begin
#dosomething
rescue Exception => e
#halt the exception's progress
end
throughout it.
Without tracking down every single possible exception these each could be handling (at least not immediately), I'd still like to be able to shut it down at times with CtrlC.
And I'd like to do so in a way which only adds to the code (so I don't affect the existing behavior, or miss an otherwise caught exception in the middle of a run.)
[CtrlC is SIGINT, or SystemExit, which appears to be equivalent to SignalException.new("INT") in Ruby's exception handling system. class SignalException < Exception, which is why this problem comes up.]
The code I would like to have written would be:
begin
#dosomething
rescue SignalException => e
raise e
rescue Exception => e
#halt the exception's progress
end
EDIT: This code works, as long as you get the class of the exception you want to trap correct. That's either SystemExit, Interrupt, or IRB::Abort as below.
The problem is that when a Ruby program ends, it does so by raising SystemExit. When a control-C comes in, it raises Interrupt. Since both SystemExit and Interrupt derive from Exception, your exception handling is stopping the exit or interrupt in its tracks. Here's the fix:
Wherever you can, change
rescue Exception => e
# ...
end
to
rescue StandardError => e
# ...
end
for those you can't change to StandardError, re-raise the exception:
rescue Exception => e
# ...
raise
end
or, at the very least, re-raise SystemExit and Interrupt
rescue SystemExit, Interrupt
raise
rescue Exception => e
#...
end
Any custom exceptions you have made should derive from StandardError, not Exception.
If you can wrap your whole program you can do something like the following:
trap("SIGINT") { throw :ctrl_c }
catch :ctrl_c do
begin
sleep(10)
rescue Exception
puts "Not printed"
end
end
This basically has CtrlC use catch/throw instead of exception handling, so unless the existing code already has a catch :ctrl_c in it, it should be fine.
Alternatively you can do a trap("SIGINT") { exit! }. exit! exits immediately, it does not raise an exception so the code can't accidentally catch it.
If you can't wrap your whole application in a begin ... rescue block (e.g., Thor) you can just trap SIGINT:
trap "SIGINT" do
puts "Exiting"
exit 130
end
130 is a standard exit code.
I am using ensure to great effect! This is for things you want to have happen when your stuff ends no matter why it ends.
Handling Ctrl-C cleanly in Ruby the ZeroMQ way:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Shows how to handle Ctrl-C
require 'ffi-rzmq'
context = ZMQ::Context.new(1)
socket = context.socket(ZMQ::REP)
socket.bind("tcp://*:5558")
trap("INT") { puts "Shutting down."; socket.close; context.terminate; exit}
puts "Starting up"
while true do
message = socket.recv_string
puts "Message: #{message.inspect}"
socket.send_string("Message received")
end
Source
Perhaps the most simple solution?
Signal.trap('INT') { exit }
This is what I use, it works. Put it somewhere before a possible user interaction.
Here, a more verbose solution, to print something to STDERR and exit:
Signal.trap('INT') { abort 'Interrupted by user' }
See here for difference between exit and abort.

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