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Sleeping and Terminating Threads

Explore how to manage thread behavior in Ruby by learning to make threads sleep and terminate them gracefully. This lesson helps you understand the use of sleep and join to control thread timing and kill and exit to end threads safely, preparing you for advanced concurrency handling.

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Sleeping Threads

It's trivial to make a thread sleep and give up its time slice on the CPU using the sleep() method, which accepts a number as an argument. ...