From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T00:13:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Thread?

Stephen Ware wrote:
> 
> Those familiar with threading in Java will know that you can write a
> class that is a subclass of Thread, and then put the thread's code into
> 'public static void run,' which gets executed once thread.start is
> called.  Can something similar to this be done in Ruby?
> 

The following simulates calling run to start a thread.  It stops the 
thread as soon as it starts, and then restarts the thread when needed:

class MyThread < Thread
  def initialize(x, y)
    super(x, y) do |val1, val2|
      Thread.stop
      puts "In thread..."
      puts val1, val2
      puts
    end
  end
end

t = MyThread.new("hello", "world")
puts "main program"
puts
sleep(2)

t.run

t.join
sleep(2)
puts "main program ending..."





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