Stopping a thread

[Bill Atkins]

Say I have a thread in variable @thread. Is it possible to stop that
thread from the main thread? I am aware of Thread.stop, but I don't
want to stop the current thread, just the thread represented in
@thread.

 

[Assaph Mehr]

Say I have a thread in variable @thread. Is it possible to stop that
thread from the main thread? I am aware of Thread.stop, but I don't
want to stop the current thread, just the thread represented in
@thread.

Look at Thread#kill. e.g.:

@thread = Thread.new {
while true
puts 'still going'
sleep 2
end
}

sleep 7
@thread.kill
puts 'done'

 

[Bill Atkins]

Brilliant! Thanks!

Look at Thread#kill. e.g.:

@thread = Thread.new {
while true
puts 'still going'
sleep 2
end
}

sleep 7
@thread.kill
puts 'done'