Problem calling Net::HTTP.get_response in Thread.new

[Ming en Chia]

i had a strange problem of unable to call Net::HTTP.get_response in
thread
example this work well

Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://www.google.com/"))

however when i called inside a thread it does not work it does not work,
i was wondering why.

Thread.new do
Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://www.google.com/"))
end

 

[Brian Candler]

i had a strange problem of unable to call Net::HTTP.get_response in
thread
example this work well

Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://www.google.com/"))

however when i called inside a thread it does not work it does not work,
i was wondering why.

Thread.new do
Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://www.google.com/"))
end

Is that your entire program? If so you will need

t = Thread.new do
# whatever
end
t.join

Otherwise the main program will exit immediately, and terminate all other
threads.