From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2002-11-23T12:38:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread problems

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:32, Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found that some old code that had once worked just sort of stopped
> working.  It turns out that Thread.new do ... end wasn't doing anything; it
> may as well have been a comment.
>
> So I ran the following test:
>
>   Thread.new do
>     raise 'Your faith in Thread was well-placed.'
>   end
>   time = Time.now + 1
>   while (Time.now < time)
>     Thread.pass
>   end

By default, if a thread raises an exception, it does not abort all the other 
threads.  This has hit me more times than I care to relate.

Try putting

   Thread.abort_on_exception = true

somewhere in your code ... preferably before the raising of the exception :-).