Internal implementation detail of Hoodoo::Communicators::Pool.

Since pool clients can say “wait until (one or all) workers have processed their Queue contents”, we need to have some way of seeing when all work is done. The clean way to do it is to push 'sync now' messages onto the communicator Threads work Queues, so that as they work through the Queue they'll eventually reach that message. They then push a message onto a sync Queue for that worker. Meanwhile the waiting pool does (e.g.) a pop on the sync Queue, which means it blocks until the workers say they've finished. No busy waiting, Ruby gets to make its best guess at scheduling, etc.; all good.

The catch? You can't use Timeout::timeout...do... around a Queue pop. It just doesn't work. It's a strange omission and requires code gymnastics to work around.

Enter QueueWithTimeout, from:

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/07/07/ruby-queue-pop-timeout/
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Class Public methods
new()

Create a new instance.

Source: show 

# File lib/hoodoo/communicators/pool.rb, line 494
def initialize
  @mutex    = ::Mutex.new
  @queue    = []
  @recieved = ::ConditionVariable.new
end
Instance Public methods
<<( entry )

Push a new entry to the end of the queue.

entry

Entry to put onto the end of the queue.

Source: show 

# File lib/hoodoo/communicators/pool.rb, line 504
def <<( entry )
  @mutex.synchronize do
    @queue << entry
    @recieved.signal
  end
end
shift( timeout = nil )

Take an entry from the front of the queue (FIFO) with optional timeout if the queue is empty.

timeout

Timeout (in seconds, Integer or Float) to wait for an item to appear on the queue, if the queue is empty. If nil, there is no timeout (waits indefinitely). Optional; default is nil.

If given a non-nil timeout value and the timeout expires, raises a ThreadError exception (just as non-blocking Ruby Queue#pop would).

Source: show 

# File lib/hoodoo/communicators/pool.rb, line 522
def shift( timeout = nil )
  @mutex.synchronize do
    if @queue.empty?
      @recieved.wait( @mutex, timeout ) if timeout != 0
      raise( ThreadError, 'queue empty' ) if @queue.empty?
    end

    @queue.shift
  end
end