If you are eg. downloading a large file, processing that file, then writing the results to a database, ThreadedPipeline may be for you. Download in one thread, process in another, and write in a third, etc.

Command line tool to upload a static analysis report to ThreadFix

CAUTION: Use this gem at your own risk. If you use gems that depends on the thread_safe gem, e.g. Rails, but your application is not doing any threading, then thread_hazardous can bring you a few performance improvements at the cost of making these dependencies non thread safe.

Launch an array of Procs within threads.

Passes thread variables to child spawned threads. Main use case is enabling logging in child thread to keep context of a request.

A simple set of lightweight concurrency tools.

An implementation of the thread-local variable provided in many programming languages like Java.

Thread Local Accessor

Provides methods to declare and use ThreadLocalVar instance variables

ThreadMan uses Celluloid to abstract out concurrent requests pattern.

A ThreadPool implementation.

Ruby's threads have no access to their root fibers. This little gem adds: - Thread#root_fiber - Fiber.root - Fiber#root? (also aliased as #root_fiber?)

Ruby wrapper for hiredis (protocol serialization/deserialization and blocking I/O), includes support for multithreading via Hiredis::ThreadSafeConnection. Original work by Pieter Noordhuis with hiredis-rb

Threadsafety overrides attr_accessor and attr_writer to generate thread-safe setters. It also provides a helper method to add threadsafety anywhere, even outside classes.

Thread Safety is a tool that plugs into Ruby's Modular GC feature to detect potential thread-safety issues.

Wrapper library of Thread class. Thread::Task, Thrad::Task::Pool

Makes it easy to create and use thread-local variables.

You need to monitor some big background tasks and kill one specific thread or restart them after scheduling in another part of your application? Then this Gem could be usefull for you. See detailed information at the github Page.

Dead simple in-process background job solution using threads, with support for scheduled jobs.

A gem to interface with the Threat Agent API