Thread and Queue

Question

I am interested in knowing what would be the best way to implement a thread based queue.

For example:

I have 10 actions which I want to execute with only 4 t

Answer 1

Executable descriptive example:

require 'thread'

p tasks = [
    {:file => 'task1'},
    {:file => 'task2'},
    {:file => 'task3'},
    {:file => 'task4'},
    {:file => 'task5'}
]

tasks_queue = Queue.new
tasks.each {|task| tasks_queue << task}

# run workers
workers_count = 3
workers = []
workers_count.times do |n|
    workers << Thread.new(n+1) do |my_n|
        while (task = tasks_queue.shift(true) rescue nil) do
            delay = rand(0)
            sleep delay
            task[:result] = "done by worker ##{my_n} (in #{delay})"
            p task
        end
    end
end

# wait for all threads
workers.each(&:join)

# output results
puts "all done"
p tasks