Backgroundrb devel - Jul 2006 - delete_worker doesn''t kill the thread?

I made a worker that run an infinite loop and does the following:

while true
@logger << "logging #{Time.now}"
sleep 2
end

In my secong console I did:

tail log/backgroundrb.log -f

This is so I could see the line getting added to the log every 2  
seconds.

Then in my other console I started script/console and created a new  
worker. Then killed it with MiddleMan.delete_worker(job_key), where  
job_key was the job key for the worker.

After I did that the other console that was monitoring my log  
continued to add a line every 2 seconds, it didn''t stop.

Am I missing something here or shouldn''t deleting a worker stop the  
loop and kill the thread?

Thanks for your help.

Thank You,
Ben Johnson
E: bjohnson at contuitive.com



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Couldn''t you do something like this:

# in your initalize worker put:
@running = true

in your main work method:

while @running
  @logger << "logging #{Time.now}"
  sleep 2
end

add a method:

def stop
  @running = false
end


Now before deleting the worker, just call stop.  I am curious about
the behavior you''re seeing, though.


On 7/31/06, Ben Johnson <bjohnson at contuitive.com>
wrote:
>
> I made a worker that run an infinite loop and does the following:
>
> while true
> @logger << "logging #{Time.now}"
> sleep 2
> end
>
> In my secong console I did:
>
> tail log/backgroundrb.log -f
>
> This is so I could see the line getting added to the log every 2 seconds.
>
> Then in my other console I started script/console and created a new worker.
> Then killed it with MiddleMan.delete_worker(job_key), where job_key was the
> job key for the worker.
>
> After I did that the other console that was monitoring my log continued to
> add a line every 2 seconds, it didn''t stop.
>
> Am I missing something here or shouldn''t deleting a worker stop
the loop and
> kill the thread?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Thank You,
> Ben Johnson
> E: bjohnson at contuitive.com
>
>
>
>
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>

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