From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2006-11-16T23:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question

Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> So you see, initialize does run the thread. You might want to write an
> independent class that would create the thread in the start function.

I'm not a thread expert, but I think that something like this should 
work

class Timer
  def initialize period, count, &action
    @period=period
    @count=count
    @action=action
   end

   def start
     @count.times do |i|
       t=Thread.new do
         sleep @period
         @action.call
       end
     t.join
     end
   end

end

t=Timer.new( 3, 4){puts "hello"}
t.start

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