From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-02-18T10:13:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to shutdown Ruby XMLRPC server?


On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:04 , Grigory Petrov wrote:

> Hello. I'm testing Ruby XMLRPC support right now. All works fine,
> except XMLRPC::Server#shutdown :( If i run following ruby 1.9.3 test
> code, it fails to shutdown server on both Windows 7 and OSX 10.7:
> 
> # server.rb
> 
> require "xmlrpc/server"
> require 'thread'
> Thread.new { sleep 10; $server.shutdown() }
> $server = XMLRPC::Server.new( 1234 )
> $server.add_handler( "test" ) { true }
> $server.serve()
> 
> # client.rb
> 
> require "xmlrpc/client"
> server = XMLRPC::Client.new( "localhost", "/", 1234 )
> loop { server.call( "test" ); sleep 0.1 }
> 
> After 10 seconds the server writes "INFO  going to shutdown ..." to
> stdout, but don't actually shut down and continues to handle incoming
> requests :(. What i'm doing wrong?

Nothing wrong that I can see. I can repro your issue as well. XMLRPC::Server#shutdown just calls shutdown on the webrick server and I use that all the time like so:

trap("INT") { s.shutdown }