From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2010-01-03T08:49:06+09:00
Subject: Re: "Dummy" IO object to push and pull data?

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On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Shay Hawkins <gohegdeh@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm relatively new to advanced Ruby programming, and I seem to be in
> need of a "dummy" IO object that does nothing except allowing reading
> and writing to it. (I suppose it could do more, but I'd like to keep it
> as simple as possible.) What I mean is, I need to use a select statement
> to check an array two IO objects that could have data to be read.
> However, in other threads running, I will be needing to push data to
> these objects.
>

If this is all just for thread synchronization, you shouldn't be using IO
primitives at all; you should be using thread synchronization primitives.

Try ri ConditionVariable and see if that accomplishes what you're trying to
do.

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Tony Arcieri
Medioh! A Kudelski Brand

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