From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T00:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question

Mike Houghton wrote:

> I'm new (very new!) to Ruby but not to programming. I have a
> Thread/class inheritance question.I'm trying to make a simple timer
> class that extends Thread and repeats a block <count> times and each
> repetition separated by <period> seconds. Here's the code

Are you coming from Java? It sets a bad example for threading. Don't use it 
just for conveniences

Here's an example how Ruby does thready things without the risk and 
complexity of threads in your own code:

require 'timeout'
  status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
    # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
  }

Look up Timeout, and it might do what you need, or lead to a similar 
technique.

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