Ruby Language Thread Terminating a Thread
Example
A thread terminates if it reaches the end of its code block. The best way to terminate a thread early is to convince it to reach the end of its code block. This way, the thread can run cleanup code before dying.
This thread runs a loop while the instance variable continue is true. Set this variable to false, and the thread will die a natural death:
require 'thread'
class CounterThread < Thread
def initialize
@count = 0
@continue = true
super do
@count += 1 while @continue
puts "I counted up to #{@count} before I was cruelly stopped."
end
end
def stop
@continue = false
end
end
counter = CounterThread.new
sleep 2
counter.stop
