From: barjunk <barjunk@...>
Date: 2008-06-30T13:44:10+09:00
Subject: Threads and Ruby

I've been hunting around for information regarding threads, and to me,
it seems confusing and conflicting.

What I'm trying to find out is...if I was going to start using threads
in Ruby, which version of Ruby should I be using.

I've seen folks say that I should use Ruby 1.9 and others say that it
is possible to use earlier versions.  Nothing that I found seemed
definitive.

I'm new to all this, so this may be part of the problem.

What I'd like to accomplish is starting a main ruby instance, then
launch threads from that instance that run in their own sandbox.

At this point, I don't believe the threads need to talk with each
other, but it seems I could use some form of message passing to
accomplish this.

Any ideas and direction would be helpful.  Thanks.

Mike B.