From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T11:43:07+09:00
Subject: Re: New to ruby, using threads

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hi Poncho,
what you want to do is probably have two parallel threads,
so, try something like:

t1 = Thread.new do
 while true do
   puts "Starting new job at #{Time.now}"
   sleep 3
 end
end

t2 = Thread.new do
  loop do
    do_something
  end
end

t1.join



2008/12/3 Poncho Quintanilla <parangaricutirimicuaro@gmail.com>

> I'm trying to schedule some task using ruby threads
>
> This work great:
>
> t = Thread.new do
>  while true do
>    puts "Starting new job at #{Time.now}"
>    do_something
>    sleep 3
>  end
> end
> t.join
>
> But when the task take a long, like:
>
> def do_something
>  puts "doing something at#{Time.now}"
>  sleep(rand(3))
> end
>
> I cant get the "Starting new job" message appears in regular intervals
> of 3 seconds. What I'm missing?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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