From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-06-28T11:46:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby timer or timed event handling?


"Serg Koren" <Serg@VisualNewt.com> wrote in message
news:B9413D30.62E9%Serg@VisualNewt.com...
> Hi
>
> Is there an accepted way of handling timed interval events? I'd like to
> process some code every 30 seconds.  I can't seem to find any timer or
> interval classes in Ruby's library.

I'll bet there's a better way, but what about creating a thread that sleeps
thirty seconds in between doing its thing?

    th = Thread.new do
      loop do
        puts "I just did something, going back to sleep now!"
        sleep(5)
      end
    end

HTH,

Lyle