From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T17:48:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads

Never mind, I resolved the issue by reading a bit more.  Sorry to waste the thread.

Cheers,
Phy


--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Threads
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:31 AM
> 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