From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T17:38:37+09:00
Subject: Threads

Hello,

So I am new to ruby and have a question about threads.  Yes, I researched looking for an answer to my question without much luck.  I am trying to create a bunch of threads that will run forever processing numerical information.  I wrote a very simple example of what I thought would work:

threads = []

list = %w(aS, bS, cS, dS, eS, fS, gS, hS)

for space in list
  threads << Thread.new(space) {|numericalSpace|
    while 1
      puts "#{thread.id}: #{numericalSpace}"
      sleep 2
    end
  }
end

This does not work as I thought it would, that is it would spin off a bunch of threads and every two seconds I would get a thread print the simple line to the terminal.  

So, what am I missing?

Thanks in advance!
Phy