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Explore how to use Ruby's MonitorMixin to add thread safety and synchronization to your classes. Understand how mixins augment class capabilities, enabling methods like updateName to be safely invoked by multiple threads. Learn when to include or extend MonitorMixin for effective concurrency control in Ruby.

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Monitor Mixin

A mixin, when added to a class, augments it with additional capabilities without using inheritance. In Ruby, a mixin is a code wrapped up in a module that a class can include or extend. The standard library offers a mixin called MonitorMixin. We can either include it in our class or extend an object of our class with it to gain monitor functionality.

Let's consider an example class Person as follows: ...