From: lover ruby <huynh_ngoc_5@...>
Date: 2011-10-12T01:04:50+09:00
Subject: Re: scheduler and thread

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1026082:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, lover ruby <huynh_ngoc_5@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>>> 1318284733
>>>    loop do
>>>    @timer.kill
>>>
>>> Sam
>> UI.start_timer, every code is executable. So the UI.start_timer acts
>> like a background process.
>
> Then you must not #join in the method that start the thread as Sam
> explained.
>
> Example:
> https://gist.github.com/1278320
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert

Thanks
I tried you code, but still need sleep 20. what I really want

require 'timer'
Timer.repeat_every(5) do
  puts Time.now.to_i
end

puts "Doing other stuff..."
#sleep 20

The output will be
"Doing other stuff..."
1318348633
1318348638
1318348643
1318348633
1318348638
1318348643
..........Forever, always print out number every 5 seconds

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