Comments on: Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby http://railsmonkey.net/2010/01/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby/ 'cause Rails rocks, and everything is better with a monkey... ;) Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jkh http://railsmonkey.net/2010/01/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby/comment-page-1/#comment-7 jkh Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:32:00 +0000 http://30/2010/02/19/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby#comment-7 This can be even shorter! There is no need to create your own queue in this example, since you're just firing something async into the background. You can just as easily skip the queue creation and do: Dispatch::Queue.concurrent.async do ... end around the IO.popen block! :) This can be even shorter! There is no need to create your own queue in this example, since you’re just firing something async into the background. You can just as easily skip the queue creation and do:

Dispatch::Queue.concurrent.async do … end around the IO.popen block! :)

]]> By: Matthew Savage http://railsmonkey.net/2010/01/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Matthew Savage Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:32:00 +0000 http://30/2010/02/19/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby#comment-8 Thanks for the pointer towards the concurrent.async blocks. I glanced over that in the apple GCD docs and didn't bother digging into this further, but I'll have to keep that in mind in the future :) Thanks for the pointer towards the concurrent.async blocks.

I glanced over that in the apple GCD docs and didn’t bother digging into this further, but I’ll have to keep that in mind in the future :)

]]> By: jkh http://railsmonkey.net/2010/01/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby/comment-page-1/#comment-89 jkh Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:32:00 +0000 http://30/2010/02/19/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby#comment-89 This can be even shorter! There is no need to create your own queue in this example, since you're just firing something async into the background. You can just as easily skip the queue creation and do: Dispatch::Queue.concurrent.async do ... end around the IO.popen block! :) This can be even shorter! There is no need to create your own queue in this example, since you’re just firing something async into the background. You can just as easily skip the queue creation and do:

Dispatch::Queue.concurrent.async do … end around the IO.popen block! :)

]]> By: Matthew Savage http://railsmonkey.net/2010/01/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Matthew Savage Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:32:00 +0000 http://30/2010/02/19/grand-central-dispatch-and-macruby#comment-90 Thanks for the pointer towards the concurrent.async blocks. I glanced over that in the apple GCD docs and didn't bother digging into this further, but I'll have to keep that in mind in the future :) Thanks for the pointer towards the concurrent.async blocks.

I glanced over that in the apple GCD docs and didn’t bother digging into this further, but I’ll have to keep that in mind in the future :)

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