sleeping Threads

[Boris Glawe]

Hi,

I'd like to start thousands of threads, each sleeping a random time and printing
a string to the terminal.

How do you stop a thread for a certain time without stopping the whole process?

1000.times{ |i|
Thread.new{
sleep(rand(10)) # this method does not only stop the thread but the whole
thread!!
puts ("hello world says #{i.to_s}")
}
}

thanks and greets

Boris

 

[Boris Glawe]

This is of course wrong:

1000.times{ |i|
Thread.new{
sleep(rand(10)) # this method does not only stop the thread but
the whole thread!!
puts ("hello world says #{i.to_s}")
}
}

it must be



1000.times{ |i|
Thread.new(i){ |x|
sleep(rand(10))
puts ("hello world says #{x.to_s}")
}
}


greets Boris