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The spawn plugin makes it easy to “spawn” long-running blocks of code using either a forks or threads. Install the spawn plugin as follows:
- ./script/plugin install http://spawn.rubyforge.org/svn/spawn/
The spawn plugin allows you to easily fork a background process within your app to handle long-running sections of code. Use it like this:
spawn do
# insert long-running code
end
By default spawn detaches from the child process so you won’t have zombies. But, if you prefer, you can also wait for all of the children processes to finish:
sids = []
N.times do |i|
sids[i] = spawn do
do_something(i)
end
end
wait(sids)
This plugin will either fork or thread the process depending on how you have it configured. Check the README for further documentation.
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