From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-06-10T08:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: doing something each second

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Christoph Jasinski <
christoph.jasinski@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all of you. I actually started out using a thread but then got
> into some trouble, which some people helped me to solve. I was just
> thinking
> that there might be a way of using Time.second.each do {....} because I saw
> 5.times do {...}. That was just a "creative" conclusion.
> Chris
>

You could do something like this with an asynchronous event framework like
EventMachine or Rev without using a thread, although if what you're trying
to do every second takes longer than a second you will likely get... strange
behavior.

Here's an example with Rev:

class MyTimer < Rev::TimerWatcher
  def on_timer
    do_something
  end
end

watcher = MyTimer.new(1, true) # 1 second repeating
watcher.attach Rev::Loop.default

Rev::Loop.default.run

-- 
Tony Arcieri
medioh.com

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