From: Robert Klemme Date: 2010-02-22T02:40:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Threads vs Processes 2010/2/21 Walton Hoops : > One thing I thought I'd add: you might give DRb a look-see.  It provides a > nice easy way > to perform inter-process communication in Ruby. I think it would be fairly > easy to implement a > worker pool with processes instead of threads using DRb. Good point! I guess there are already frameworks around that abstract this away but cooking your own isn't too hard either. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/