I have a problem about sleep for loop on ruby

Question

guys i write a chat bot for twitch in hobby. i want to spam a word in chat in a time like that write to chat"hello" and wait 10 sec then write again i did that but in my code have a answer system like that when anyone write to chat !hey my bot answering hello to him. and when i tried in same system that not working

until @socket.eof? do 
message = @socket.gets
    puts message
    if message.match(/PRIVMSG ##{@channel} :(.*)$/)
     a = Time.now
     b = Time.now + 5
     while a < b do
      write_to_chat("!prime")
      a += 4
      sleep(20)

     end

     end
       if message.match(/PRIVMSG ##{@channel} :(.*)$/)
      content = $~[1]
      username = message.match(/@(.*).tmi.twitch.tv/)[1]

       if content.include? 'theoSea'

       write_to_chat(" theoAse theoAse theoAse")

       end     

Answer 1

i solved it with scheduler i wanted a code for write every 5 min i tried lots of method but sleep command and i found this link "https://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler" all in link u can use this gem. thx for everything guys.