From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T04:31:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Threads 101

Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Ben wrote:
>>
>>> I looked through rubyquiz.com (where I've been pulling a few of our
>>> exercises), but nothing jumped out at me.  Did I miss something?
>>
>> Glad to hear it's proving useful.
>>
>> We haven't had a good threading problem yet, but I'm very open to the
>> idea if someone can think one up...
>
> I have one about a bunch of hungry commie philosophers...

LOL

Ben, you could start with a simple problem (like farmer worker e.g. a small 
app that crawls web pages in parallel with controllable degree of 
parallelism) to get the basic feeling and then work your way up to more 
complicated things.

I once cooked something up on the Wiki (including a superfluous queue 
implementation - there is one that comes with Ruby) although I guess it 
won't be much use for you as you seem to be rather senior when it comes to 
threading.
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?MultiThreading

One thing to keep in mind is that Ruby threads are not (yet) native threads. 
Despite of that they work quite nicely IMHO.

Kind regards

    robert