Yes I felt your pain when I was doing this: http://rosenfeld.herokuapp.com/en/articles/ruby-rails/2012-03-04-how-nokogiri-and-jruby-saved-my-week I do also miss a thread pool implementation in Ruby stdlibs. On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 / gmail.com> wrote: > It has always seemed a bit odd to me that Ruby's sdlib doesn't have some kind of > threadpool class. > > I know it's easy to roll your own, but it would be slightly easier to > be able to do something like > > a = [1,2,3] > ThreadPool.new(a).map{|number| > number*3 > } > > Or the lik. > Feedback welcome. If none I'll file a feature request redmine. > > Thank you. > -roger- > related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3840751/why-doesnt-ruby-have-a-threadpool-built-in/3841111#3841111 >