A Ruby Timeout that works

Last month a Solid Queue job at Beautiful Ruby hung on a slow Anthropic API call. Workers wedged. ActiveRecord pool drained. Pager going off. The fix should have been obvious: tell the kernel to give up after a deadline. Ruby doesn’t expose that knob. So I built it. If you’ve got a Sidekiq job hitting Stripe, a Solid Queue worker sending email through Mailgun, or any background processor talking to any vendor, this is your future too. You just haven’t lived it yet. If you think the :timeout on your job is going to save you, sit down, friend. We need to talk.