Refactored brittle timer and TimerTask specs.

Author: jdantonio

spec/concurrent/timer_task_spec.rb

@@ -126,10 +126,12 @@ def trigger_observable(observable)
         }.should raise_error
       end
 
-      specify '#execution_interval is writeable', :brittle do
+      specify '#execution_interval is writeable', :brittle, :refactored do
 
         latch   = CountDownLatch.new(1)
-        subject = TimerTask.new(execution_interval: 1) do |task|
+        subject = TimerTask.new(timeout_interval: 1,
+                                execution_interval: 1,
+                                run_now: true) do |task|
           task.execution_interval = 3
           latch.count_down
         end
@@ -145,10 +147,12 @@ def trigger_observable(observable)
         subject.kill
       end
 
-      specify '#execution_interval is writeable', :brittle do
+      specify '#timeout_interval is writeable', :brittle, :refactored do
 
         latch   = CountDownLatch.new(1)
-        subject = TimerTask.new(timeout_interval: 1, execution_interval: 0.1) do |task|
+        subject = TimerTask.new(timeout_interval: 1,
+                                execution_interval: 0.1,
+                                run_now: true) do |task|
           task.timeout_interval = 3
           latch.count_down
         end

spec/concurrent/utility/timer_spec.rb

@@ -16,15 +16,14 @@ module Concurrent
       }.to raise_error(ArgumentError)
     end
 
-    it 'executes the block after the given number of seconds', :brittle do
+    it 'executes the block after the given number of seconds', :brittle, :refactored do
       start = Time.now.to_f
       latch = CountDownLatch.new(1)
-      Concurrent::timer(0.5){ latch.count_down }
-      latch.count.should eq 1
-      latch.wait(0.1)
-      latch.count.should eq 1
+      Concurrent::timer(0.1){ latch.count_down }
       latch.wait(1)
-      latch.count.should eq 0
+      diff = Time.now.to_f - start
+      diff.should > 0.1
+      diff.should < 0.5
     end
 
     it 'suppresses exceptions thrown by the block' do