From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-05-21T07:07:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Web services and Ruby

Quoting luke@madstop.com, on Sat, May 21, 2005 at 04:57:29AM +0900:
> On Sat, 21 May 2005, Sam Roberts wrote:
> 
> >Whats wrong with threads? Its a good answer.
> 
> Well, there are at least two problems with threads:  I've never done them 
> before and I hope not to have to learn them just to do this relatively 
> simple piece, and second they do add another dimension of complexity, one 
> which I must always be at least somewhat aware.  Given that, as I 
> mentioned, I'm a newbie to threads, this does not fill me with confidence.

I was worried about threads, too, then I found they are trivial. You'll
just need two, I guess, and the data thats shared between them should
all be one place (good design), and you just wrap that with a Mutex.

If really should be easy.

> >Taking a guess, in case you are worried, they aren't real threads, its
> >just a very nice wrapper around select().
> 
> Yah, I know that they aren't real threads, but I believe they still come 
> with some of the problems that I would have with real threads.

Yeah, but doing things other ways has problems, too, and this way is
well supported in ruby.

Have fun,
Sam