From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-04-26T01:21:50+09:00
Subject: Re: thread question

On 25/04/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Every second, a function in the class that's being made available via
> DRb should be called automatically.  How would I do that?
> 
> So I'd have
> 
> class Server
>  def update
>    # stuff gets updated
>  end
> end
> 
> server = DRb.start_service....
> 
> server.update() # <== somehow ran every second

How about:

update_thread = Thread.new(server) do | s |
  loop do 
    sleep 1
    s.update
  end 
end


> 
> DRb.thread.join
> 
> 

or is there anything special with drb that prohibits this?

best regards,

Brian

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