Simple thread pool by Kim Burgestrand, with ThreadPool.run convenience method

thread_pool.rb

require 'thread'

class ThreadPool
  def self.run(numthreads, &block)
    tp = new(numthreads)
    block.call(tp)
  ensure
    tp.shutdown
  end

  def initialize(size)
    @size = size
    @jobs = Queue.new
    @pool = Array.new(@size) do |i|
      Thread.new do
        Thread.current[:id] = i
        catch(:exit) do
          loop do
            job, args = @jobs.pop
            job.call(*args)
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
  
  def schedule(*args, &block)
    @jobs << [block, args]
  end
  
  def shutdown
    @size.times { schedule { throw :exit } }
    @pool.each(&:join)
  end
end

if $0 == __FILE__
  ThreadPool.run(10) do |p|
    20.times do |i|
      p.schedule do
        sleep(2 + rand 2)
        puts "Job #{i} finished by thread #{Thread.current[:id]}"
      end
    end
  end
end

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