Phy Prabab
10/14/2008 8:48:00 AM
Never mind, I resolved the issue by reading a bit more. Sorry to waste the thread.
Cheers,
Phy
--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Threads
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:31 AM
> Hello,
>
> So I am new to ruby and have a question about threads.
> Yes, I researched looking for an answer to my question
> without much luck. I am trying to create a bunch of threads
> that will run forever processing numerical information. I
> wrote a very simple example of what I thought would work:
>
> threads = []
>
> list = %w(aS, bS, cS, dS, eS, fS, gS, hS)
>
> for space in list
> threads << Thread.new(space) {|numericalSpace|
> while 1
> puts "#{thread.id}: #{numericalSpace}"
> sleep 2
> end
> }
> end
>
> This does not work as I thought it would, that is it would
> spin off a bunch of threads and every two seconds I would
> get a thread print the simple line to the terminal.
>
> So, what am I missing?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Phy