From: Stephen Celis <stephen.celis@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T11:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Running methods in parallel

Hi

On Jul 28, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Skave Rat wrote:

> is there a way to parallelize ruby methods?

You can always use threads:
http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/classes/Thread.html

> 5.times do
>  Foobar.new("somestuff")
> end
>
> #do stuff while Foobar-objects are running

5.times do
   Thread.new {
     Foobar.new("somestuff")
   }
end

# do stuff while Foobar objects are running