ChildProcess::TimeoutError and "I run ..."

[aroberts]

I run into this error sporadically when using the "I run" step:

And I run "melon -d test.db add test_file test_file_2" # aruba-0.3.2/lib/aruba/cucumber.rb:94
  process still alive after 1 seconds (ChildProcess::TimeoutError)
  features/edges.feature:9:in `And I run "melon -d test.db add test_file test_file_2"'

As far as I can tell from a little source diving, it looks like there's a hard-coded limit to how long Aruba will wait for a child process to quit, after it sends the quit signal. Googling really isn't telling me anything. Am I correct in interpreting this as aruba telling me that my child processes won't die for some reason? And, is there anything I can do?

[aroberts]

From the front page of the site:

Set @aruba_timeout_seconds to control the amount of time Aruba will wait for a process to finish running before terminating it:

Before do
  @aruba_timeout_seconds = 5
end

This should obviously be closed.

[aslakhellesoy]

Sometimes RTFM beats Google ;-)