Showing dot each second until the script ends

Ruby
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I have a ruby script, which takes about 20 seconds to execute.

I want to show a dot (.) sign each second.

I think I need to use “sleep” method and a loop,
but I don’t know how to add the functionality to my script.

Any help would be appreciated.

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Hunt J.[email protected] wrote:

I have a ruby script, which takes about 20 seconds to execute.

I want to show a dot (.) sign each second.

I think I need to use “sleep” method and a loop,
but I don’t know how to add the functionality to my script.

Any help would be appreciated.

If you want to do that I think you would need a thread for that purpose.
Does your script now print nothing for that 20 seconds?

If so, you could print a dot after each step of your program finishes.
Then when you see the last dot, it will be finished, whether it took
19 seconds or 22 seconds, or whatever.
Just a suggestion.

(0…3_000_000).to_a #Fake busy time
print “.”
STDOUT.flush

(0…3_000_000).to_a #Next process, etc.
print “.”
STDOUT.flush

(0…3_000_000).to_a
print “.”
STDOUT.flush

(0…3_000_000).to_a
print “.”
STDOUT.flush

puts

Harry

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2009/8/21 Hunt J. [email protected]:

I have a ruby script, which takes about 20 seconds to execute.

I want to show a dot (.) sign each second.

I think I need to use “sleep” method and a loop,
but I don’t know how to add the functionality to my script.

Any help would be appreciated.

Here’s one way: create a separate thread that loops infinitely and
does the sleeping and printing.

Kind regards

robert

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Thanks. It woked fine. I just made the following:

Thread.new do

code rhe

end