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Maintenance Ruby 3.4 gets fixes, but no new features. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →

instance method

IO#wait_readable

(?::Time::_Timeout? timeout) -> ::boolish
io.wait_readable → truthy or falsy
io.wait_readable(timeout) → truthy or falsy

Waits until IO is readable and returns a truthy value, or a falsy value when times out. Returns a truthy value immediately when buffered data is available.

You must require ‘io/wait’ to use this method.

Ruby version changes

  1. 3.0
See also #wait_priority #wait_writable #wait #winsize also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0