From: Sal Syed <saliktheblank@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T04:00:06+09:00
Subject: Threading in ruby is retarded .....?~!

I'm running the latest version an Ruby and the way threads work makes
absolutely no sense to me...

I have the simplest use of threads:
[code]
Thread.new do
while true
  puts "Enter command"
        if gets.chomp=='exit'
        break;

end
puts 'Ended service'
end

Thread.new do
  while service != nil
  server.start
end end

$user[:drbserver]=DistributedSearch.new($user,$database)
service=DRb.start_service("druby://localhost:#{$config[:drbport]}",$user[:drbserver])
DRb.thread.join
[/code]

When I run this DRb does NOT start until after I type in exit! Why does
a new thread block the main thread wtf??????  I'm guessing this is not
normal and has something to do with either DRb or Webrick. Isn't there a
way that these two would just run their own threads...? It makes it
useless to me if I can't run both in the same program
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