From: "christoforever@..." <christoforever@...>
Date: 2008-10-08T22:22:53+09:00
Subject: calling methods of subclassed thread

As you will see at the bottom of this code snippet, i've commented out
where the problem is. There are no errors but simply the methods never
execute. I cant figure out for the life of me why that is. I've tried
a few different things but nothing is working. I would love to know
what I'm doing wrong or maybe ruby cant do what im asking of it... Im
not sure either way and would love some feedback. Thanks in advance

Chris Dancy

class MyThread < Thread
  def initialize(num='')
    super
    puts "Thread #{num} has been created"
    @identity = num
    @attempts = 0
    @time_waiting = Time.new
    @total_time = Time.new
  end
  def time_to_die
    puts "Thread #{@identity} is dying now..."
    self.kill
  end
end

class Start
  def initialize
    @NUMBER_OF_PEOPLE = 10
    @callers = Array.new(@NUMBER_OF_PEOPLE)
    @phone_held = false
    self.start_simulation
    self.finish
  end
  def start_simulation
    puts "Starting Simulation..."
    @NUMBER_OF_PEOPLE.times do |num|
      puts " " + num.to_s

      @callers[num] = MyThread.new(num) do |local_num|

        ## I want to call this executing MyThread method time_to_die
but its not working
        ## this does not work, but gives no errors

        @callers[local_num].time_to_die
        self.time_to_die

        ## neither of the previous methods execute.
        puts "here is the class " + @callers[local_num].class.to_s #
spits  out NilClass. Shouldent this be Thread?
      end
    end
  end

  def finish
    puts "And im spent...Simulation is over"
  end
end
start = Start.new