From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-07-02T06:15:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby threads

Vlad Smith wrote:
> Hi guys! Hope you`ll find some time to assist with any ideas
>
> i have an array of links and a number of steps that needs to be done to
> each of those links.
>
> there are always the same amount of links in array..so basically i can
> do everything manually
>
> i was wondering how can i create the new thread for processing each of
> those links , maybe there`s a way of doing something like this :
>
> array.each do |link|
>   a = Thread.new {....}
>   a.join
> end
>   

That almost works, except it will block on each thread before starting 
the next.

threads = []

array.each do |link|
  threads << Thread.new {....}
end

threads.each do |t|
   t.join
end


-Justin