From: Vikhyat Korrapati <vikhyatk@...>
Date: 2009-06-09T20:23:57+09:00
Subject: Re: simple threading

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Christoph
Jasinski<christoph.jasinski@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I wanted to write a program that request stock quotes say every second. So I
> started to write a thread like this:
>
>  require 'rubygems'
>  require 'yahoofinance'
>
>  thread=Thread.new do
>    YahooFinance::get_historical_quotes_days( 'goog', 10 ) do |row|
>      puts "YHOO,#{row.join(',')}"
>    end
>  end
>
> When I run this I don't get any results. Which is really weird. Got all the
> gems and so on.
> But when I do the same code run in IRB it works! without any surprises. I
> don't get it. Really.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Chris
>

Not sure, but adding 'thread.join' to the end might help.

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