Ruby multiple background threads

Question

I need to run multiple background threads in a thread pool with timeout. The scheme is something like:

    #!/usr/bin/env ruby

require \'thread\'

def foo(&         


        

Answer 1

The program ends when the main thread ends. You have to wait on the thread created by bar using join:

foo {
  sleep 1
  puts 'test'
}.join

Answer 2

Try the work_queue gem http://rubygems.org/gems/work_queue/