How to trigger a thread by event

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Hi,
As you know, ruby thread start to execute when created, like
Thread.new do ......end
Here my question is how can I defer the thread execution until something happened, like an event?
Thanks,Brian

2

Huh? Is this a serious question? The solution seems pretty obvious.

Cheers

robert

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On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:05 AM, XueBrian <brian.xue@hotmail.com> wrote:

As you know, ruby thread start to execute when created, like

Thread.new do
      ......
end

Here my question is how can I defer the thread execution until something
happened, like an event?

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3

Quoting XueBrian (brian.xue@hotmail.com):

Here my question is how can I defer the thread execution until
something happened, like an event?

I am not sure I understand what you want to do. Threads can be stopped
and restarted. If, from within the code of your thread, you call first
thing

Thread::stop

then, whenever you need the execution to restart, you can call t.run
from your main process. Look at the example that is returned to you by
running.

ri Thread::stop

HTH

Carlo

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Subject: how to trigger a thread by event
  Date: Fri 07 Dec 12 06:05:43PM +0900

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4

I do not recommend doing that. Generally one should rather use thread
synchronization primitives to control execution of threads.

Cheers

robert

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On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Carlo E. Prelz <fluido@fluido.as> wrote:

        Subject: how to trigger a thread by event
        Date: Fri 07 Dec 12 06:05:43PM +0900

Quoting XueBrian (brian.xue@hotmail.com):

Here my question is how can I defer the thread execution until
something happened, like an event?

I am not sure I understand what you want to do. Threads can be stopped
and restarted. If, from within the code of your thread, you call first
thing

Thread::stop

then, whenever you need the execution to restart, you can call t.run
from your main process. Look at the example that is returned to you by
running.

--
remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/