From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2009-06-10T01:13:09+09:00
Subject: Re: doing something each second

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Christoph
Jasinski<christoph.jasinski@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> is it possible to execute a block each second for let's say 8 hours a day?
> Instead of using threads maybe. Something like this:
>
> Time.each.second do {
>  stuff
> }

There's no way to run something asynchronously every second or trigger
something to run asynchronously every second without a thread of some
kind or without interrupting the flow of the main thread. Why don't
you want to use a thread?

- Charlie