From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T02:57:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question -- sorry

[previous code snipped]
> timer = Timer.new( 1,5){puts "x"}
> timer.start
	<= the application finishes here

You have to call #join on your thread or the application finishes and the 
thread is killed

Sylvain