From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-12T05:11:07+09:00
Subject: Re: scheduler and thread

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:04 PM, lover ruby <huynh_ngoc_5@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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

Then you better exchange foreground and background task:

Thread.new do
  puts "Doing other stuff..."
end

loop do
  puts Time.now.to_i
  sleep 5
end

Kind regards

robert

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