Ruby sleep or delay less than a second?

Question

So I'm making a script with ruby that must render frames at 24 frames per second, but I need to wait 1/24th of a second between sending the commands... how can I do that?

sleep seems to only wait in increments of 1 second or more.

update

Well ya you can do sleep 0.1 if you want, but is this the best way to delay in a ruby script?

Answer 1

sleep(1.0/24.0)

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As to your follow up question if that's the best way: No, you could get not-so-smooth framerates because the rendering of each frame might not take the same amount of time.

You could try one of these solutions:

• Use a timer which fires 24 times a second with the drawing code.
• Create as many frames as possible, create the motion based on the time passed, not per frame.

Answer 2

Pass float to sleep, like sleep 0.1