Ruby Thread Pool (See related posts)

pool = ThreadPool.new(10) # up to 10 threads
email_addresses.each do |addr|
  pool.process {send_mail_to addr}
end

require 'thread'

class ThreadPool
  class Worker
    def initialize
      @mutex = Mutex.new
      @thread = Thread.new do
        while true
          sleep 0.001
          block = get_block
          if block
            block.call
            reset_block
          end
        end
      end
    end
    
    def get_block
      @mutex.synchronize {@block}
    end
    
    def set_block(block)
      @mutex.synchronize do
        raise RuntimeError, "Thread already busy." if @block
        @block = block
      end
    end
    
    def reset_block
      @mutex.synchronize {@block = nil}
    end
    
    def busy?
      @mutex.synchronize {!@block.nil?}
    end
  end
  
  attr_accessor :max_size
  attr_reader :workers

  def initialize(max_size = 10)
    @max_size = max_size
    @workers = []
    @mutex = Mutex.new
  end
  
  def size
    @mutex.synchronize {@workers.size}
  end
  
  def busy?
    @mutex.synchronize {@workers.any? {|w| w.busy?}}
  end
  
  def join
    sleep 0.01 while busy?
  end
  
  def process(&block)
    wait_for_worker.set_block(block)
  end
  
  def wait_for_worker
    while true
      worker = find_available_worker
      return worker if worker
      sleep 0.01
    end
  end
  
  def find_available_worker
    @mutex.synchronize {free_worker || create_worker}
  end
  
  def free_worker
    @workers.each {|w| return w unless w.busy?}; nil
  end
  
  def create_worker
    return nil if @workers.size >= @max_size
    worker = Worker.new
    @workers << worker
    worker
  end
end