Your operating system starts every process with a “main” thread. Ruby allows you to create as many additional threads as you want by calling Thread.new with a block of code to be executed. Once the block of code has finished executing, the thread is considered dead. If the main thread exits, the process dies.
Friday, October 28, 2011
A Modern Guide to Threads
Every time you execute ruby, rails or irb, you are creating a process. Within each process, you have something which is executing the code in your process. This is called a thread.
Your operating system starts every process with a “main” thread. Ruby allows you to create as many additional threads as you want by calling Thread.new with a block of code to be executed. Once the block of code has finished executing, the thread is considered dead. If the main thread exits, the process dies.
Your operating system starts every process with a “main” thread. Ruby allows you to create as many additional threads as you want by calling Thread.new with a block of code to be executed. Once the block of code has finished executing, the thread is considered dead. If the main thread exits, the process dies.
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