From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T05:12:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem calling Net::HTTP.get_response in Thread.new

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:54:05AM +0900, Ming en Chia wrote:
> i had a strange problem of unable to call Net::HTTP.get_response in
> thread
> example this work well
> 
> Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://www.google.com/"))
> 
> however when i called inside a thread it does not work it does not work,
> i was wondering why.
> 
> Thread.new do
>     Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://www.google.com/"))
> end

Is that your entire program? If so you will need

t = Thread.new do
   # whatever
end
t.join

Otherwise the main program will exit immediately, and terminate all other
threads.