Backgroundrb devel - Feb 2008 - Defer multiple methods within the same worker to the thread pool?

Within a threaded worker, I would like to have multiple methods.  Will  
the following code work?

def method_1(args)

   thread_pool.defer(args) do |args|
     #work
   end

end

def method_2(args)

   thread_pool.defer(args) do |args|
    #work
   end

end

  . . . or, should I have one "meta"-method and pass which sub-method
to perform via args?

def meta_method(args)

   thread_pool.defer(args) do |args|

    if args[:method] == "method_1"
      #do work
    end

    if args[:method] == "method_2"
      #do work
    end

   end

end




Thanks,
Ben

On Feb 2, 2008 11:56 PM, Benjamin H. Bryant <iambenbryant at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Within a threaded worker, I would like to have multiple methods.  Will
> the following code work?
>
> def method_1(args)
>
>    thread_pool.defer(args) do |args|
>      #work
>    end
>
> end
>
> def method_2(args)
>
>    thread_pool.defer(args) do |args|
>     #work
>    end
>
> end
Yes that will work fine. The thread_pool.defer call just packages the
block and arguments into a class which is put into a queue. The
thread_pool pulls from that queue and executes the packaged code in
the order it was received.

Since I was making use of thread_pool.defer myself I read the source
to see what it was doing, which is nothing too crazy.

Regards,
Ryan