thread

Utilities for working with threads.

Reference

• create
• sleep
• Thread
• Thread.join

create

|Function| -> Thread

Creates a new thread and executes the provided function.

See also

• Thread
• Thread.join

Example

threads = 0..4
  .each |i| thread.create(|| "thread {}".format i)
  .to_tuple()

threads
  .each |t| t.join()
  .to_tuple()
# ("thread 0", "thread 1", "thread 2", thread 3")

assert_eq data, [10..18]

sleep

|Thread, Number| -> ()

Suspends the current thread for a specified number of seconds.

The duration must be positive and finite.

Thread

A thread, created with thread.create.

Thread.join

|Thread| -> Value

Waits for the thread to finish, and then returns the result of the thread's function.

If the thread finished due to an error being thrown, then the error is propagated to the joining thread.

Example

t = thread.create || "hello"
t.join()
# hello