From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-06-10T02:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: doing something each second

On 9 Jun 2009, at 17:13, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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?

It could probably be done with a signal handler, but that's not the  
kind of code anyone wants to maintain in its raw state. However this  
does look like a nice idea for a thread abstraction...


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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