Oh I see, because of the call to Kernel.sleep forces the thread in a
sleeping state.
On Oct 25, 9:55 pm, John Merlino <stoici...@aol.com> wrote:
> In this example:
>
> 1.9.3p0 :001 > def threading
> 1.9.3p0 :002?> i = 0
> 1.9.3p0 :003?> while i <= 50
> 1.9.3p0 :004?> sleep(2)
> 1.9.3p0 :005?> i += 1
> 1.9.3p0 :006?> if i == 50
> 1.9.3p0 :007?> puts "the thread is finished at #{Time.now}"
> 1.9.3p0 :008?> end
> 1.9.3p0 :009?> end
> 1.9.3p0 :010?> end
> => nil
> 1.9.3p0 :011 > t = Thread.new { threading }
> => #<Thread:0x007f833d301660 sleep>
> 1.9.3p0 :012 > t.status
> => "sleep"
> 1.9.3p0 :013 > t.stop?
> => true
> 1.9.3p0 :014 > t.alive?
> => true
> #few minutes later:
> 1.9.3p0 :015 > the thread is finished at 2012-10-25 21:52:43 -0400
>
> As soon as threading is invoked in the new thread, I check its status.
> And the status is "sleep". Why is it "sleep" and not "runnable"?
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