From: Arlen Christian Mart Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2007-10-03T00:24:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable scope in GServer

Hi,

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:44 +0900, Chris Bailey wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem accessing variables in an instance of GServer.
> What I would like to do is make a hash that is effectively global to the
> current thread.

This is just a random thought, but what about a class-level hash where
the running thread (Thread.current) is the key?

e.g.

class TestServer#..
  @@thingy = {}
.....
  protected
  def test_hash
    @@thingy[Thread.current]
  end
  def test_hash= m
    @@thingy[Thread.current] = m
  end
end

I'm not sure about locking (which is probably only relevant at the level
of test_hash=), but it may be worth a look

Just a thought.

 - Arlen