5.5 Moving Ahead

In this chapter, we learned the following:

• How important multithreading is when dealing with dRuby

• How to use the Thread class and its different states.

• How to safely communicate among threads without causing data corruption or deadlock. There are various ways, such as Thread.exclusive, Mutex, Monitor, and Queue.

In the next chapter, I’ll introduce another Ruby standard library that I created called Rinda. Rinda is built on top of dRuby and will be very useful when you want to communicate across different applications.