From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2008-07-15T05:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Threads

In plain Ruby, you might want to rewrite this to a more
functional style:

 holder =
 array.collect do |number|
   Thread.new do
     puts "Starting #{number}...\n"
     sleep(5)
     number
   end
 end.collect do |thread|
   thread.value
 end

And, using ThreadLimiter [1,2], you can reduce it to:

 require "threadlimiter"

 holder =
 array.threaded_collect do |number|
   puts "Starting #{number}...\n"
   sleep(5)
   number
 end

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

 [1] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/threadlimiter/doc/index.html
 [2] http://rubyforge.org/projects/threadlimiter/