From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T15:25:57+09:00
Subject: Re: threads

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 11:37, Brad Tilley wrote:
> I'm rewriting some old Python scripts in Ruby. Just to learn a bit more.
> I want to thread this code to check websites concurrently. Could somone
> offer advice? What are reasonable limits on threads in Ruby?
>
>     ips.each do |ip|
>         begin
>             Timeout::timeout(5) do
>                 Net::HTTP.start(ip) do |site|
>                     data = site.get( '/' ).body.downcase
>                     if data.include?(minolta) and
> data.include?(pagescope)
>                         puts printer + "\t" + ip
>                     elsif data.include?(xerox) and
> data.include?(printer)
>                         puts printer + "\t" + ip
>                     else
>                         puts "website\t" + ip
>                     end
>                 end
>             end
>         # Don't really care about exceptions just time outs mostly.
>         rescue Timeout::Error
>             puts "Timeout\t" + ip
>         rescue Exception
>             puts "General Exception\t" + ip
>         end
>     end

i made a small example here:
http://pastie.caboo.se/19495

^ manveru