From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T20:57:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads and loops

On 8/16/07, Emil Sandin <esandin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, if I run this script:
>
>   loop{
>     puts "hello"
>     sleep 1
>   }
>
> It outputs "hello" every second.
> But if I place it in a separate thread:
>
> Thread.new do
>   loop{
>     puts "hello"
>     sleep 1
>   }
> end
>
>
>
> it prints it only one time and then exits.
> Why is that?

When your program exits, the thread dies. Take a look at Thread.join
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Thread.html#M000474


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