From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@...>
Date: 2012-01-27T04:49:47+09:00
Subject: Re: uninitialized thread error with a Thread subclass

Michel G. писал 26.01.2012 23:43:
> Hi. I've encountered this problem lately :
>
> wally.rb :
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> class Goal < Thread
>   def initialize
>      puts "i'm a Goal"
>   end
>
> end
>
> dibi = Goal.new  { puts "i'm dibi" }
>
> gives
>
> i'm a Goal
> wally.rb:10:in `new': uninitialized thread - check `Goal#initialize'
> (ThreadError)
>   from wally.rb:10
>

Add `super' call within your `initialize' method.

>
> I'm running ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i486-linux] on
> Ubuntu 10.04. Tried purging-installing ruby, to no avail.
> Upgraded to ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i686-linux] on
> Ubuntu 10.10, same error.

Consider upgrading to Ruby 1.9. Ruby 1.8.7 is more than 3 years old,
and it will soon be discontinued.

-- 
   WBR, Peter Zotov.