From: Ralf Mueller Date: 2011-12-12T19:25:23+09:00 Subject: [ANN] jobQueue 1.0.1 - Running stuff with a user defined number of threads Hi! JobQueue is a ruby gem, that allows you to run Ruby methods and system commands in parallel. It comes with an executable prun.rb with takes two arguments: Number of worker threads and a shell scripts, from which line is executed in parallel wrt the given number of threads. Thanks to Robert Klemme, who provided some implementation ideas some years ago. Hints for improvements and any type of criticism are very welcome! Hope you'll find it usefull. doc: http://rubydoc.info/gems/jobQueue/frames dev: https://github.com/Try2Code/jobQueue tests: https://github.com/Try2Code/jobQueue/blob/master/test/test_jobqueue.rb