Extends Thread

[Dott. Hellboy]

Hello

i'm moving the first steps on ruby. I'm writing a simple chat server (a
porting from my java project) just for trying.
now i've a doubt about the Thread class, May i extend it?
I'm thinking something like this:

class ServThread < Thread
def initialize(socket)
super
@soc = socket
end
end

But i didn't find any reference about it. Maybe i can't do that.

any suggest?

Thanks

Dott Hellboy

 

[Robert Klemme]

Hello

i'm moving the first steps on ruby. I'm writing a simple chat server (a
porting from my java project) just for trying.
now i've a doubt about the Thread class, May i extend it?
I'm thinking something like this:

class ServThread < Thread
def initialize(socket)
super
@soc = socket
end
end

But i didn't find any reference about it. Maybe i can't do that.

Sure you can. But threads are used differently in Ruby than in Java.
You always have to supply a block that contains the work to be done -
much the same as if you supply a Runnable in Java. You can of course do
that in the constructor of your subclass but personally I think it's not
worth the effort.

Did you look at those examples for TCPServer in Pickaxe? Those use
threads as well IIRC.

Kind regards

robert

 

[Une bévue]

Did you look at those examples for TCPServer in Pickaxe?

where is Pickaxe, because i need also examples of thread to start
with...

 

[Robert Klemme]

where is Pickaxe, because i need also examples of thread to start
with...

http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+pickaxe

 

[Une bévue]

http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+pickaxe

obvious, thanks ;-)