From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-04-26T01:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: thread question

On 4/25/05, Brian Schr�der <ruby.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 

I wasn't sure about how the interactions between the threads would
work.  I'll try the above and see how it works.