How to do pings in a rubyqt application so the GUI doesn't freeze?

If you move the costly operation to an external library you could easily queue it up and execute it using something like delayed_job ( github.com/tobi/delayed_job/tree/master ) which would remove the risk of it halting the request at all.

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