From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T07:45:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading in ruby is retarded .....?~!

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

You could try it in JRuby, which uses normal operating system threads. 
No thread should be prevented from running unless you explicitly make it 
happen.

- Charlie