From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" <stathy.touloumis@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T02:57:15+09:00
Subject: Newbie, threads

Hello,

I want to start a thread from within the initialize method.  This thread 
will sleep for a time and then run a method of the Class being 
instantiated.  How do I refer to the object from within the block being 
passed to the Thread constructor?

Currently this is what I have but it would seem to me that 'self' will 
refer to the thread object.

def initialize
   @guard = Thread.new {
     while 1 do
       sleep(timout)
       self.clean
     end
   }
end