From: Mike Houghton <mike_k_houghton@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T01:09:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question

Phlip wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the comments.
I looked at Timeout and, though it could be used here, I think its for 
something more imperative than running a block every n seconds and 
besides the block might
not terminate before the timeout.

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