From: Adam Bender <abender@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T12:50:08+09:00
Subject: Re: thread.rb

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:09 PM, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:32:27 +0900, "Adam Bender" <abender@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I couldn't find the Scheduler gem
>
>  gem install scheduler

Hmm.  That didn't work the first time I tried it (the gem wasn't
found), but it worked just now.

>  In this case, the problem is that you are always putting the thread to
>  sleep on the "pops" queue, even when there is already a pushed value
>  available on the "pushes" queue.

I realized later on that that was probably the problem, and indeed it was.

>  Implementing this in conjunction with timeout is harder, but possible:

Awesome, this gives me exactly what I need.  Thanks for you help.

Adam